Detention Heart Sergeant “Fantasized” About Juvenile

A former juvenile detention middle sergeant has been arrested following an investigation into her relationship with an underage detainee.

In keeping with experiences, 27-year-old Sgt. Katelyn Gomez, who labored at Pinellas Regional Juvenile Detention Heart in Clearwater, solicited intercourse from a 16-year-old boy incarcerated there. In keeping with a Pinellas County Sheriff’s Workplace information launch, deputies revealed detectives had been capable of decide the “inappropriate letters” discovered within the mattress of the underage detainee had been written by Gomez.

Gomez reportedly wrote intimately her plans to have interaction in sexual exercise with {the teenager} upon their first assembly on one of many letters. The pair had developed a relationship after Gomez met him within the detention middle weeks earlier than the invention of the letters. Detectives even found Gomez had despatched {the teenager} an image of herself to his mobile phone. She reportedly advised authorities she “fantasized about having a sexual relationship with the sufferer and deliberate to construct a life with him as soon as he was launched.”

Gomez is presently in custody and her bail has not been set.