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Ex-prison guard admits to fondling immigrant women
By MARY FLOOD
Sept. 24, 2009, 1:36PM

A former immigration facility prison guard admitted today that he repeatedly snuck into the rooms of women held in isolation and ordered them to strip so he could fondle them.

Robert Luis Loya, 43, pleaded guilty to three counts of depriving the detained women of their civil rights and three counts of abusive sexual contact for attacking three women in the spring of 2008 at the Port Isabel Detention Center operated by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ICE uses the facility to hold citizens of other countries here without documentation.

“As a security officer he enjoyed power over the aliens detained in PIDC. All three victims were in the custody, care and supervisory control of the defendant,â€