WARSAW — “Mr. Orr was part of a group that did bad things,” said Prosecutor Brad Voelz in Kosciusko County Superior Court One Thursday morning, June 21. Voelz continued by saying that despite the heinousness of an incident in the Kosciusko County Jail, the Warsaw man in court was more of a passive participant than a ring leader.

Christopher Jacob Orr

Christopher Jacob Orr, 21, 907 E. Fort Wayne Street, Warsaw, was originally charged with rape, a level 3 felony; criminal confinement, a level 6 felony; and intimidation, a level 6 felony stemming from a sexual assault between inmates in the Kosciusko County Jail Oct. 15, 2017.

“We would agree with the summation of the state in terms of Mr. Orr’s involvement,” said Defense Attorney Andrew Grossnickle.

Orr was accused of being one of four inmates who forced another inmate to insert his finger into the anus of one of the four men in order to remove drugs, police reported. Orr’s involvement included blocking the victim’s path of escape on at least one occasion and threatening to use toilet paper to block surveillance cameras so other inmates could beat up the victim.

The victim originally reported the incident to an officer of the Kosciusko County Sheriff’s Department and said he was too intimidated to return to his holding cell. The victim told officers that the four men — Orr, Danny Combs, Timothy Freeman and Tyler Martin were forcing him to engage in the previously mentioned act, as well as stealing his lunch, hitting him with a pair of sandals and kicking him. The victim told police that at one point, Orr dumped a cup of urine on his head.

“There were previous matters in which you were involved in this kind of thing,” said Judge Jerry M. Barr to Orr at his sentencing hearing Thursday. “What’s disappointing is that when probation has been involved, you have not lived up to the conditions of your probation. You have to make your own decisions, you’re 21,” said the judge.

Judge Barr continued by telling Orr that help wanted signs are everywhere and that the defendant could go out and get a job and start positively contributing to society. “But maybe you prefer to be with these types of people,” the judge said. “You have your whole life ahead of you.”

Barr sentenced Orr to one year in the Kosciusko County Jail, a sentenced which the defendant had already served when jail time credit was added.