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Published June 30, 2009 01:21 pm - Leland Cox has stated since being accused of sexual abuse that the acts were consensual, but that he knew his actions had been morally wrong.

Jailer admits actions on police tape


By BURTON SPEAKMAN
Glasgow Daily Times

GLASGOW

Leland Cox has stated since being accused of sexual abuse that the acts were consensual, but that he knew his actions had been morally wrong.

Yet in a 37-minute interview with Kentucky State Police Drug Enforcement/Special Investigations detectives on July 24, 2008, Cox said that while at the time he thought the acts were consensual looking back he could understand why the women involved did not.

“I knew what I was doing was wrong morally,” Cox said. “The flesh is weak.”

The interview, which was part of a criminal investigation, was obtained through a Kentucky Open Records request by CNHI News Service.

During the interview Cox said he had been married for more than 30 years without cheating and that he didn’t understand what had come over him in the year prior to his arrest.

Click here to listen to Barren County Jailer Leland Cox’s conversation with Kentucky State Police on July 24, 2008. Be aware some language may be considered offensive.

The interview came before the jailer’s arrest in July 2008 on 30 counts of sexual abuse. He accepted an Alford plea in January, acknowledging there was sufficient evidence for a conviction if the case proceeded to trial. He did not admit guilt in open court, but agreed to retire from the job on Jan. 2, 2010.

Part of the plea agreement forbade Cox from having direct or indirect contact with the women he sexually abused.

On the July 24 recorded conversation, he said he understood how the women he had touched could have been scared of him as the supervisor or believed that he was threatening their jobs.

“I’ve messed up in the last year or so morally,” he said. “I didn’t know I’d done anything, but maybe now that I think about it, something that could be in the criminal line, because of who I am not because of what I’ve done.”

Cox said he understood that because of his supervisory role he should have known better than to act the way he did.

“I’m not going to deny anything they’ve told you, because I love them people and I’m not going to cause them any more undue hurt,” he said.

Cox stated in the interview that sexual contact with the women had occurred for around a year. The incidents had always occurred with the workers at the jail that he believed he could trust.

The incident would begin with a shoulder rub and then Cox said his hands would go to the women’s breasts. He couldn’t provide an estimate on how many times he had touched his female employees although he stated with one particular woman it had probably occurred 20 times.

“All this went on about a year, but now they’re saying they were afraid of me. I thought we were friends and they would tell me if anything was wrong,” Cox said.



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