Woman-on-Woman Rape Claim At Rikers
Posted on August 8, 2008
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According to the Village Voice, a female inmate says she was sexually assaulted by at least one other woman in her cell in the Rikers Island jail.
Apparently, woman-on-woman sexual assault in correctional facilities is extremely unusual and is being handled with great secrecy by the department.
The alleged victim, claims that someone entered her cell in the 1000 bed facility while she was asleep, sometime before 6am on July 3. She says the intruder(s) bound and gagged her with bedsheets and then proceeded to assault her with a dido-like object.
The incident was reported at 7:30am and the victim was transported to a local hospital.
What remains to be answered, is how did the intruder gain access to her cell since she did not share her cell with anyone, and why was she assaulted?
One source suggests that the woman was targeted in a power play by another inmate anxious to flex her muscles.
Correction Department spokesman Stephen Morello said:
“We do not tolerate any type of sexual abuse by anyone in the jails. For more than five years, we have engaged in a campaign to prevent it.”
The DA’s office declined to comment.
