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July 5, 2016 -- Acting Westchester County District Attorney James A. McCarty announced that Evita Hinds (DOB 07/09/80) of 15019 Shore Avenue, Jamaica, New York, plead guilty today to:

  • one count of Rape in the Third Degree, a class “E”” Felony.

On May 30, 2015, Evita Hinds was employed as a corrections officer by the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision and was assigned to Sing Sing Correctional Facility, where she knew that the victim was an inmate committed to the care and custody of the State Department of Correctional Services.

On May 30, 2015, at approximately 2:45 p.m., the victim was in a housing block inside Sing Sing Correctional Facility, when Corrections Officer Evita Hinds engaged in sexual intercourse with him while inside the officer’s station inside the housing block.

The sexual intercourse occurred at a time when the victim was incapable of consent by virtue of his being an inmate committed to the care and custody of the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision. 

The defendant’s bail continues.

She is due to be sentenced on Oct. 11, 2016.

The defendant faces an indeterminate sentence of imprisonment of between one and a third and four years in state prison.

Assistant District Attorney Kerrie Williams of the Sex Crimes Bureau, prosecuted the case.