Women's Rights Group Demands Investigation Into Rape Allegations At Detention Center

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/31/ultraviolet-rape-detention_n_6084838.html
Women's Rights Group Demands Investigation Into Rape Allegations At Detention Center
Roque Planas
10/31/2014

A women’s rights group is demanding that the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Civil Rights investigate allegations of sexual abuse at a Texas immigrant detention center that houses families.

In a press statement issued Friday, UltraViolet pointed to multiple allegations of abuse contained in an open letter published by the Mexican-American Legal Defense Fund earlier this month against Karnes County Residential Center.

“The Department of Homeland of Security has a rape problem, with a huge number of allegations of sexual assault being reported out of Karnes,” Karin Roland, organizing director at UltraViolet, told The Huffington Post. “They need to investigate this immediately.”

The Mexican-American Legal Defense Fund wrote an open letter to Immigration and Customs Enforcement earlier this month alleging that at least three employees harassed or abused "numerous" women at the detention center since August.... MORE at link provided above.

[PumpkinAle]

1. Sadly, I am not surprised.

I hope they do investigate and get rid of those that did this.