Jail-Rape Trial Set to Begin in Jeffco
A 20-year-old man who admitted raping his cellmate seven years ago in a juvenile detention center is charged with raping his cellmate in the Jefferson County jail and is being investigated for allegedly raping another inmate at another facility.
Information-sharing slip-ups apparently prevented James Westbrook's past from following him from facility to facility.
Westbrook is scheduled to go on trial Monday on 23 counts of sexual assault and one count of extortion for allegedly raping his 19-year-old cellmate at the Jefferson County jail.
The assaults occurred from the evening of Jan. 3 to the morning of Jan. 4, according to court documents.
The assaults also happened just hours after another inmate told deputies that Westbrook tried to sexually assault him when they were cellmates, court records show.
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