Former Oregon Youth Authority employee faces criminal charges for grooming, assaulting child in custody

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A former employee at the MacLaren Youth Correctional Facility in Woodburn has been charged with grooming and sexually assaulting youth placed in the state’s custody and supplying vaping devices to incarcerated youth.

Cherie MacDougall, 42, was arraigned in Marion County Circuit court this week on three counts of supplying contraband, three counts of conspiracy to supply contraband, two counts of custodial sexual misconduct and two counts of felon in possession of a firearm…

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