Department of Corrections not investigating alleged sexual assault at DOC event

Officials at the state Department of Corrections did not investigate when an employee reported she was sexually assaulted by a co-worker at a staff golf outing and asked the department to address it.

Instead, DOC officials told the Oakhill Correctional Institution employee to contact police on her own, recently released state records show. And when she filed a complaint with the state alleging she was the target of discrimination and harassment because of the 2016 incident, DOC denied responsibility — in part because she waited more than a month to report the alleged assault to her supervisors.