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Bronx DA assembling team of prosecutors to review Rikers sexual assault tips
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The Bronx district attorney’s office has assembled a team of prosecutors to review claims of sexual assault made by former detainees on Rikers Island against jail staff in response to a Gothamist investigation.
The office, which has jurisdiction over Rikers, has also established a tip line for victims.
Gothamist analyzed more than 700 lawsuits filed by former detainees that describe an “endemic” culture of sexual abuse on the island — including groping, forced oral sex and rape — and accuse the city and the Department of Correction of failing to protect detainees in their custody. The Rikers-related allegations accounted for nearly 60% of lawsuits filed in New York City’s state supreme courts under the Adult Survivors Act, which created a one-year window to bring civil claims past the statute of limitations that closed last November.
Read the full story on Gothamist.com.
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Manage episode 411819728 series 95357
The Bronx district attorney’s office has assembled a team of prosecutors to review claims of sexual assault made by former detainees on Rikers Island against jail staff in response to a Gothamist investigation.
The office, which has jurisdiction over Rikers, has also established a tip line for victims.
Gothamist analyzed more than 700 lawsuits filed by former detainees that describe an “endemic” culture of sexual abuse on the island — including groping, forced oral sex and rape — and accuse the city and the Department of Correction of failing to protect detainees in their custody. The Rikers-related allegations accounted for nearly 60% of lawsuits filed in New York City’s state supreme courts under the Adult Survivors Act, which created a one-year window to bring civil claims past the statute of limitations that closed last November.
Read the full story on Gothamist.com.
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