A former east-central Missouri sheriff's deputy facing statutory rape and corruption charges now is being sued in federal court by a woman who claims he drugged her in a hotel room and sexually assaulted her in 2012.
Marty Rainey, 51, resigned from his Gasconade County job last November, two months before he was accused of sexual assault, statutory rape and other still-unresolved charges, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.
The woman who sued Rainey on Monday in St. Louis is among the alleged victims in the criminal case. The lawsuit identifies her only as "Jane Doe." The Associated Press does not identify the alleged victims of sexual assault.
A message seeking comment was left Friday with Frank Carlson, Rainey's attorney in the criminal case.
Online court records don't show who is representing Rainey in the lawsuit.
The lawsuit also names Gasconade County Sheriff Randy Esphorst, who also did not immediately return a message Friday by the Associated Press.
The lawsuit alleges the woman called the Gasconade County Sheriff's Department in July 2012 to ask whether an ex parte order had been served on her estranged husband. Rainey got her address and telephone contact information.
Over the next few weeks, the lawsuit claims, Rainey called the woman 87 times and sent 1,288 texts - many of them sexually explicit - and approached her at her home and made sexual advances toward her.
Rainey picked her up in his patrol car in August 2012 and took her to an Owensville motel, where he sexually assaulted her after incapacitating her with a drink he secretly drugged, the lawsuit alleges.