A former Georgia prison guard has been sentenced to 51 months in prison without parole for sexually assaulting three female inmates at a Swainsboro facility and coercing the women to help him cover up the assaults, Channel 2 Action News confirmed Monday.
Daniel Edgar Johnson, 51, who was a captain for the Georgia Department of Corrections, pleaded guilty to assaulting several women during his tenure at the Emanuel Women’s Facility.
At least 13 women accused him of sexual abuse, according to investigators. But Johnson pleaded guilty in October 2017 to assaulting only three of those women.
He manipulated inmates into having sex with him, often threatening to keep them from their children or offering to transfer them to a better facility if they cooperated, the Associated Press reported.
The women who came forward said Johnson forced them to have sex with him. In prisons, even consensual sex between guards and inmates is illegal as of 2003.
In interviews with the AP, women said Johnson initially seemed caring and comforting, telling them he was a pastor and reciting passages from the Bible. Then, he reportedly used his position as a captain to make the women available to him, such as assigning them a work detail to clean his office, and his demeanor became more forceful.
Johnson was fired in April 2015 and arrested in May of that year, according to the AP.
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