A 43-year-old former ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ corrections officer was sentenced to 13 months in prison after he previously pleaded guilty to sexually abusing an inmate, officials said.
Donovan Begay, of Menager's Dam, will also be required to pay a $5,100 fine, court costs and register as a sex offender, Cosme Lopez, a U.S. Attorney's Office spokesman, wrote in a news release.
Senior United State District Judge Cindy K. Jorgensen also sentenced Begay to a presumptive life term of supervised release, the release said.
In the fall of 2015, Begay was working as a corrections officer with the Tohono O'odham Corrections Center and engaged in multiple instances of sexual contact with an inmate housed at the facility, the release said.
The investigation was handled by the Tohono O'odham Police Department and the Southern ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ Corruption Task Force, which is made up of employees from the FBI, Department of Homeland Security, ICE and the ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ Police Department. The case was prosecuted in U.S. District Court in ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ by Assistant U.S. Attorney Gordon E. Davenport III, according to the release.