Woman prison worker who help convicted murders escape pleads guilty.
The female prison worker who was accused of aiding two convicted murderers escape from a New York prison last month pleaded guilty to being an accomplice. Her confession revealed her intimate relations with the convicts, The Daily Caller News Foundation reports.
Joyce Mitchell, 51, pleaded guilty to first-degree promoting contraband and fourth-degree criminal facilitation. She could potentially spend seven years in prison, asABC News reports more details. NBC news also acquired previously unreported details. Within a set of documents, Mitchell divulged that she gave oral sex to one of the prisoners and sent X-rated pictures to the other.
Mitchell also detailed that she sent scribbled love notes to Richard Matt’s cellmate, David Sweat. Even though she also gave him pictures of her naked breast and vagina to Matt, she never had sexual relations.“I believe I helped inmate Matt and inmate Sweat escape because I was caught up in the fantasy,” Mitchell said in a statement. “I enjoyed the attention, the feeling both of them gave me and the thought of a different life.”
In terms of her contraband charge, she worked in the prison’s tailor shop and smuggled artifacts to the prisoners by stuffing them into hamburger meat.
Mitchell also initially offered to be the getaway driver but ducked out at the last minute. The prisoner had intentions to kill Mitchell’s husband before she checked herself into a hospital for anxiety. However, the prosecution will not charge her with being involved in her husband’s murder or the accusations that she had sexual relationships with the prisoners.
Mitchell’s husband Lyle believed Matt seduced her and that she was enamored with him.
Matt was rumored to be quite the womanizer. One of the FBI agents that collared Matt said he had a gifted appendage and that “He gets girlfriends any place he goes.” However, Matt was killed by another officer after the escape attempt, and the other, Sweat, was wounded and thrown back in the pen.
Lyle has continued to be loyal as she awaits sentencing in late September.