NEW YORK – Two former corrections officers at Downstate Correctional Facility in Fishkill have been convicted of the November 12, 2013 beating of inmate Kevin Moore, and of falsifying records after the fact to cover up the beating.
A federal court jury found that former officers Kathy Scott and George Santiago, Jr. assaulted Moore, then 54, in violation of his civil rights by punching and kicking him in the head and body as he lay prone on the floor. As a result, Moore was hospitalized for two weeks with facial bone fractures, five broken ribs, and a collapsed lung.
Scott, 43, of Saugerties, and Santiago, 35, of Fremont Center, were each convicted of one count of deprivation of rights under color of law, which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison; one count of conspiracy to deprive civil rights, which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison; one count of falsifying documents, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison; and one count of conspiring to falsify documents, which carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison.
They are to be sentenced in April 2018.
Three other former Downstate corrections officers pled guilty to the same offenses. Andrew Lowery pled guilty in July 2016; Donald Cosman pled guilty in August 2016; and Carson Morris pled guilty in November 2017.
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