SALT LAKE CITY — A former Tooele County corrections officer will be the one serving 210 days behind bars over kissing and touching that has also resulted in a lawsuit.

Cody Rutledge will serve his time in the Salt Lake County Jail. Then he must serve 36 months of probation, according to records from a sentencing hearing held Tuesday.

Rutledge earlier pleaded guilty to three counts of custodial sexual misconduct — all misdemeanors. Other counts were dropped in exchange for the plea.

The same day Rutledge was sentenced, one of his victims filed suit in federal court in Salt Lake City. It names Rutledge and Tooele County as defendants.

The plaintiff was an inmate at the Tooele County Jail. In her complaint, she alleges that in 2022 and 2023, Rutledge would take her and another inmate

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