Trans Woman Alleges Three Sexual Assaults at NYC's Rikers Island Jail
Daily News reports. She filed her suit recently in Bronx Supreme Court (in New York, “Supreme” does not refer to the highest court).She has been housed at Rikers “on and off” since her arrest in May 2020, according to the Daily News.
She was first placed in the Anna M. Kross Center, a unit for men; jail officials said she could not be housed with women because she was not on hormone therapy, but she started taking it soon after her incarceration.
She also has bipolar disorder, jail records state.Her first sexual assault occurred at the Kross Center on June 12, 2020, her suit says.
She was depressed and on suicide watch, but a corrections officer “let an inmate into her cell, who then choked her unconscious and sexually assaulted her,” the Daily News reports.She was then transferred to the Rose M.
