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Five felony charges of sexual assault by a corrections officer of an inmate were dismissed against a former guard at the Milwaukee County Jail after he pleaded no contest to one felony count of misconduct in public office as part of a plea agreement.

Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Daniel Konkol sentenced the former guard, Xavier Thicklen, 26, to three days in the House of Correction, which he already has served, and a fine of $200. The original charges carried a maximum penalty of 200 years in prison.

Thicklen has consistently denied having ongoing sexual contact with the inmate while she was in jail last year. The misconduct charge involves him giving candy and gum to the woman and letting her make an unauthorized phone call, according to Thicklen's lawyer, Lew Wasserman.

"All he was guilty of was probably being too sympathetic to inmates," Wasserman said. "She was an agitator and he was trying to mollify her. He gave her Jolly Ranchers out of his lunch and Doublemint gum."

The woman, who was 20 at the time, told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel earlier this year that Thicklen assaulted her five times, including once when she was more than seven months pregnant and once within days of her return to the jail after giving birth.

Prosecutors believed her and filed the sexual assault charges against Thicklen in January.

Thicklen, who had been a corrections officer for a little more than a year, resigned a month earlier, as soon as the Milwaukee County sheriff's office began investigating.

The woman, who already was pregnant at the time of her arrest, gave birth to a healthy girl while in custody.

She has filed a federal lawsuit alleging that sexual assaults, improper nutrition and shackling during delivery were violations of her civil rights. Thicklen, Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. and the county are named as defendants.

A federal judge suspended the civil case in July, pending the outcome of the criminal case against Thicklen.

Last month, Wasserman said Thicklen offered in June to plead no contest to the single misconduct count, but negotiations were held up because Assistant District Attorney Paul Tiffin had been barred from speaking to the woman by her civil attorneys and he felt he needed to speak with her before making a plea deal.

Konkol ruled that the prosecutor was not required to engage in plea negotiations, according to online court records. Because Tiffin was not representing anyone in the civil suit, he was not required to recuse himself, Konkol found.

The civil suit is pending.

Attorney Robin Shellow, among a team of lawyers representing the woman in the civil case, said surveillance video from the jail corroborates the woman's allegations.

"The plea bargain struck by the state and the defendant is between the two of them," Shellow said. "When the evidence is aired before a civil jury, Thicklen will be made to eat more than Jolly Ranchers. He will have to eat his words."