Two correction officers and their supervisor walked the woman from an intake area to an isolated room in an abandoned area of the Rikers Island jail. There, according to a lawsuit, she was stripped of her clothing, handcuffed to a toilet fixture and sexually assaulted for several hours. The woman said her attackers included a correction captain and two officers, who raped her and penetrated her with a flashlight. She was also compelled to drink soapy liquid, she said, and the officers pepper-sprayed her genitals. The next day, she said, a correction officer took her from the isolated area to a housing unit in the jail and warned: “This never happened.

Source: New York Times December 14, 2018 09:56 UTC