DeKalb County officials announced Monday that a former corrections officer pleaded guilty to charges related to using excessive force against inmates.
Thirty-three-year-old Cesary Wilborn pleaded guilty to aggravated assault, aggravated battery and three counts of violation of oath by a public officer, according to a press release from the DeKalb District Attorney’s Office.
The charges go back to July 2016, when Wilborn physically assaulted inmate Demetre Mason in the victim’s cell. Mason had a seizure and fell out of the top bunk of his cell a few hours later. Doctors at Grady Hospital said Mason had a fractured jaw, and that the assault caused the seizure.
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