Ann Klein officer gets 5 years for sexual misconduct
TRENTON » A disgraced Ann Klein Forensic Center security officer who lost his job amid allegations he sexually assaulted a female patient at the workplace has been held accountable for his transgressions.
Kenneth Glover, 38, of Hamilton, has been sentenced to five years of state imprisonment after fessing up to official misconduct. Mercer County Superior Court Judge Robert Bingham II handed down the punishment last Friday.
New Jersey State Police arrested Glover March 7 on allegations he vaginally penetrated a mental health patient by force on two separate occasions earlier this year. He was charged with two counts of first-degree aggravated sexual assault and related offenses. He was fired from his state job effective March 31 after getting jailed without bail on pretrial detention, officials confirmed.
Glover pleaded guilty Oct. 10 to a single count of second-degree official misconduct. In return, the state disposed of Glover’s sexual assault and invasion of privacy charges at his sentencing hearing last week, records show. As such, he will not register as a sex offender but is forever banned from future public employment in the state of New Jersey.
Glover’s employment status with the New Jersey Department of Human Services began in August 2013 when the state hired him to work at the Trenton-based forensic center. At the time of his termination, Glover was a senior medical security officer being paid $44,557 per year, although he had padded his pockets with tens of thousands of dollars in overtime pay during his tenure, according to public records.
Prosecutors at a March 16 detention hearing said Glover admitted to having on-the-job sexual relations with an Ann Klein patient, but a public defender suggested it was the patient who had “lured him into the room and initiated these acts.”
The state-run Ann Klein Forensic Center serves 199 clients who have been determined by the courts to be “not guilty by reason of insanity” or “incompetent to stand trial” or who require special security measures due to the nature of their illness, according to the state Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services.
Glover was a married father of six children and had no prior criminal history. Under state law, he must forfeit all of his pension benefits as a public employee guilty of a workplace-related crime of moral turpitude. He must serve out his five years of incarceration minus 276 days of jail credit without parole eligibility, according to the terms of his prison sentence.