EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — A man who spent more than 20 years as a federal probation officer has been sentenced to a decade in prison for sexually abusing five women under his supervision.
The Eugene Register-Guard reports 52-year-old Mark Walker pleaded guilty to using his position to force one of the women to have sex with him. He fondled four other women.
Walker was assigned to the U.S. Probation Office in Eugene for most of his career.
He resigned in July 2009, one month after a Lane County sheriff’s detective informed Walker’s supervisor that Walker may have been having an inappropriate relationship with a female probationer.
