Jury indicts MCI inmate in assault on officer
By Norman Miller/ Daily News Staff
Saturday, July 8, 2006
CAMBRIDGE -- An MCI-Framingham inmate was indicted by a Middlesex County grand jury this week, charged with assault after she spit blood on guards, threatening them with hepatitis C.
Christien Rivera, 27, of Lawrence, also hit a guard with a pan during the May 2006 incident, authorities said.
Rivera is charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and assault and battery on a corrections officer.
In May, Rivera was serving a one-year sentence for receiving stolen property in Lowell when she began yelling at another inmate.
Corrections officers ordered her to stop, but Rivera refused, according to court records. As officers attempted to lock down the unit and control Rivera, she picked up an empty coffee pot and threatened the guards.
After she refused to drop the pot, she struck a corrections officer in his left forearm and head, according to court records.
Other guards wrestled the woman to the ground, where she continued to struggle. At one point, Rivera spit blood on the officers, saying she had hepatitis C.
Rivera is scheduled to be arraigned in Middlesex Superior Court next Friday.
Rivera made news in 2004 after she was arrested on drug charges, her 27th arrest, while pregnant with triplets. Lawrence District Court Judge Allen J. Jarasitis set a high bail of $5,000 for the homeless woman so she would have to be held in custody to protect the unborn children from her addiction.
"If she wants to poison her own body that's one thing, but assuming what is in the police report is true, she's affecting three other people," District Court Judge Allen J. Jarasitis said at the time.
The state had already taken custody of Rivera's first three children, including a girl who tested positive for drugs within hours of her birth in 2002, Lawrence police said.
Rivera gave birth in June 2004, four weeks premature. The triplets, two boys and one girl, were healthy and placed in state custody.
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