VERSAILLES, Mo. (AP) – A Missouri jail nurse has been charged with having sex with an inmate and two jail officers are charged with helping.
Warrants were issued Thursday for nurse Janet Phillips, who was contracted to work at the Morgan County Jail, and the two officers, Elizabeth Knipp and Robert Hoover. All three were charged Monday with sexual contact with an inmate and delivering prohibited articles to the jail. Phillips faces an additional count of bribery of a public servant and Knipp of concealing a felony and acceding to corruption.
No attorney is listed for Hoover in online court records, while Phillips’ attorney declined to comment and Knipp’s didn’t immediately return a phone message from The Associated Press. The sheriff’s office and the special prosecutor also didn’t immediately return phone messages.