A former Cobb County Sheriff’s deputy was sentenced to 15 years in prison Tuesday after pleading guilty to charges he sexually assaulted two female inmates.
Kristopher Travitz will serve five years of that behind bars, according to Cobb District Attorney’s office spokeswoman Kim Isaza. The sentence was imposed by Cobb Superior Court Judge Reuben Green.
Travitz, a 14-year veteran of the sheriff’s office, was indicted in March after an internal investigation.
He was accused of fondling one of the female prisoners between October 2010 and March 2011. Travitz initially told investigators he had never taken her to his home, as she claimed.
But his story was contradicted by the inmate’s GPS tracker, which, according to the arrest warrant, showed she spent 45 minutes one day at Travitz’s Douglasville home.
Travitz was the second Cobb deputy arrested this year on sexual misconduct charges. Alvin Blake Sutherland is still awaiting trial on charges including aggravated sodomy and aggravated sexual battery.
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