Vic Ryckaert is an enterprise reporter for WRTV’s digital team. He also covered public safety, government, and development for the Indianapolis Star for more than two decades.
HENRY COUNTY — A man is suing Henry County and claiming a Community Corrections officer assigned to monitor his home detention coerced him into performing sex acts and got him hooked on methamphetamines.
In his suit, Shipley — at the time a cocaine addict — claims he visited Bertram two more times over the course of his 90-day home detention sentence. On both subsequent visits, Shipley claims that Betram gave him methamphetamine. In January 2023, the suit alleges that Henry County prosecutors formally charged Bertram in connection with crimes involving Shipley and three other men he was assigned to supervise."The criminal case obviously went away , but my client and I know that there's more people in his position in Henry County who have not received any kind of adjudication or even acknowledgment from Henry County that this was going on," Little said."Henry County allowed Mr.
Defendants named in the lawsuit include Community Corrections Executive Director Joni Williams and Henry County Sheriff John Sproles.
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