California prison guard awaits sentencing for brutal sexual assault of woman in COVID quarantine
LOS ANGELES - A federal correctional officer in California is now awaiting sentencing after he pleaded guilty to brutally sexually assaulting a woman who was in COVID quarantine.
Jose Viera, 49, of Monterey Park, entered the plea in late May before United States District Judge Otis D. Wright II. He is out on supervised released until his March 13, 2023, sentencing date, where he faces a maximum of 10 years in prison.
Viera was a Bureau of Prisons officer assigned to work at Metropolitan Detention Center-Los Angeles, a federal prison in downtown LA that holds roughly 160,000 men and women and employs 35,000 workers who "model mainstream values." In his plea agreement, Viera admitted that on Dec.
20, 2020, entered the cell of the woman, identified in court records as J.P., to bring her breakfast. She was in COVID-19 isolation because she had contracted the virus.
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