A former Orange County deputy must register as a sex offender after pleading guilty to sexually assaulting two female inmates in 2022.

The Orange County District Attorney's Office charged former deputy Arcadio Rodriguez , 30, with three misdemeanors for sexual battery, sexual activity with a confined consenting adult and possession of a cell phone in jail.

Prosecutors said the current California law only allows them to charge a detention facility employee with a misdemeanor for "over the clothes instead of skin to skin" sexual activity.

Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer said the women were awaiting trial at the Theo Lacy Facility when Rodriguez "ordered them to perform at his every whim."

"To have a sworn deputy sheriff betray his oath of office to serve and protect by p

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