Inmates accused of
escaping for sexual
encounters

GREENE COUNTY, Ind. (WTHI) - Secret rendezvous's discovered at one Wabash Valley county jail.

Inmates at the Greene County Jail are accused of sneaking around for midnight visits together.

"Obviously this is embarrassing for us," Greene County Sheriff Terry Pierce said.
Six inmates, Nicole Haldeman, Misty Moore, Kay Snyder, William Hutcherson, Alex Rathburn and Jesse Ross, all accused of escaping their cells for secret sexual meetings.

Officials said the three women used a shower drain to pry open the ceiling tiles. Then they traveled from their cell block to the cell where the males were housed. Once the females were inside the males' dorm they did everything from play cards to sexual activity, no one knows how it long it went on, jail officials guess it happened about 15 times.

The nighttime escapes were discovered last week when jailers found notes detailing the encounters here in the women's cell. Sheriff Pierce said the escapes proves the jail is outdated.

"We need a new camera system, I don't think in the years we've been here there's been a sufficient camera system."

There's a camera in the women's cell, but the inmates were able to sneak through the ceiling in the corner, out of the camera's view.

"If there is a design flaw and you house inmates they will find it," Sheriff Pierce said.

In the meantime, the men have been moved and felony charges are pending against all six.

Sheriff Pierce said this isn't the first time inmates have escaped from their cells. The sheriff is planning on talking to county commissioners about adding more preventive measures.