A major investigation is under way in Las Vegas after a court officer
is accusing of sexually molesting a woman, and employees and managers
allegedly covered up the assault.
Video has just surfaced of Monica Contreras, who went to family court with her 2-year-old daughter in August 2011.
KLAS-TV reports she was in court for a routine divorce hearing.
“According to internal court documents, as Contreras was leaving,
family court marshal Ron Fox ordered her into a waiting room for an
unexplained drug search,” the station says.
Contreras claims Fox touched her buttocks and breast, and also ordered her to lift up her shirt.
Clark County courts conducted a later investigation which validated the woman’s allegations.
Contreras went back into the same courtroom to tell hearing master
Patricia Donninger that her requests for a female marshal handle the
search were ignored.
“I think I’d rather have a female in here and he went anyway. I was
just offended by it. I’m just offended that he asked me,” Contreras told
Donninger, who did not respond.
The video shows Marshal James Kenyon preparing to arrest Contreras. She can be heard pleading with him.
“For what, sir? Why would I be arrested? Can you please tell me?”
That’s when Fox chimed in, “Because of false allegations made against a police officer.”
A major investigation is under way in Las Vegas after a court officer
is accusing of sexually molesting a woman, and employees and managers
allegedly covered up the assault.
Video has just surfaced of Monica Contreras, who went to family court with her 2-year-old daughter in August 2011.
KLAS-TV reports she was in court for a routine divorce hearing.
“According to internal court documents, as Contreras was leaving,
family court marshal Ron Fox ordered her into a waiting room for an
unexplained drug search,” the station says.
Contreras claims Fox touched her buttocks and breast, and also ordered her to lift up her shirt.
Clark County courts conducted a later investigation which validated the woman’s allegations.
Contreras went back into the same courtroom to tell hearing master
Patricia Donninger that her requests for a female marshal handle the
search were ignored.
“I think I’d rather have a female in here and he went anyway. I was
just offended by it. I’m just offended that he asked me,” Contreras told
Donninger, who did not respond.
The video shows Marshal James Kenyon preparing to arrest Contreras. She can be heard pleading with him.
“For what, sir? Why would I be arrested? Can you please tell me?”
That’s when Fox chimed in, “Because of false allegations made against a police officer.”
A major investigation is under way in Las Vegas after a court officer
is accusing of sexually molesting a woman, and employees and managers
allegedly covered up the assault.
Video has just surfaced of Monica Contreras, who went to family court with her 2-year-old daughter in August 2011.
KLAS-TV reports she was in court for a routine divorce hearing.
“According to internal court documents, as Contreras was leaving,
family court marshal Ron Fox ordered her into a waiting room for an
unexplained drug search,” the station says.
Contreras claims Fox touched her buttocks and breast, and also ordered her to lift up her shirt.
Clark County courts conducted a later investigation which validated the woman’s allegations.
Contreras went back into the same courtroom to tell hearing master
Patricia Donninger that her requests for a female marshal handle the
search were ignored.
“I think I’d rather have a female in here and he went anyway. I was
just offended by it. I’m just offended that he asked me,” Contreras told
Donninger, who did not respond.
The video shows Marshal James Kenyon preparing to arrest Contreras. She can be heard pleading with him.
“For what, sir? Why would I be arrested? Can you please tell me?”
That’s when Fox chimed in, “Because of false allegations made against a police officer.”
