Corrections Officer Indicted for Sexual Assault on Inmate

A corrections officer and the former assistant head of the Middlesex County Adult Corrections Facility who was indicted Tuesday on charges of sexual assault and official misconduct has also been indicted on charges of making and carrying false police identification.

Derick Stevens, 40, was arrested in December and was suspended from his $70,291-a-year job after the woman he allegedly assaulted reported the incident to authorities.

In an update from the Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office on Tuesday, a jury in Middlesex County indicted Stevens on Feb. 27 on charges of misconduct, offenses involving a false government document, and creating and possessing a simulated document.

"In the documents case, the grand jury charged that Stevens, a resident of Burlington Township, was in possession of the false police identification card on December 7, 2011," she release said.

The assault took place in 2000 when the victim, then 21, was being held for a juvenile offense. Right before he was arrested, officials said Stevens asked the victim not to talk to authorities about the sexual assault and offered her money to remain silent, according to a report on NJ.com. 

Stevens was also charged with witness tampering, hindering his own apprehension, obstructing the administration of law, and tampering with or fabricating physical evidence, according to the report.