"I Don't Want Anyone Else to Go Through That": ICE Detainees Allege Sexual Assault by Jail Nurse
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🗓️ 14 July 2022
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Four women who were detained in a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement jail are alleging that a nurse at the facility sexually assaulted them. This week on Intercepted, the four women, who were detained at the Stewart Detention Center in Georgia, share their stories with lead producer José Olivares and Intercept contributor John Washington. Olivares and Washington examined internal Homeland Security records, public reports, sheriff’s department documents, emergency call records, and interviewed nearly a dozen sources. They found alarming allegations of sexual assault and harassment and myriad problems, including medical neglect, and unsafe and unhealthy conditions. Olivares and Washington break down the facility’s history, the allegations by the women, and what conditions inside Stewart have been like for the past year and a half, since women began to be detained there. join.theintercept.com/donate/now
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Intercepted includes descriptions of sexual assault and suicide. |
| 0:04.7 | The center discretion is advised. |
| 0:19.0 | On our first day in the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia, |
| 0:22.8 | Maria, an asylum seeker from Venezuela, |
| 0:25.6 | was ordered for a routine medical screening. |
| 0:28.0 | They took us to breakfast and they began calling us one by one |
| 0:36.7 | throughout the morning to go to screenings. |
| 0:40.0 | For me, it was around the afternoon. |
| 0:43.0 | After waiting for about two hours in a reception room, |
| 0:45.9 | a nurse called her name, |
| 0:47.7 | he greeted her, followed her into the small exam room, |
| 0:51.0 | and then closed the door behind them. |
| 0:53.4 | It was New Year's Eve 2021. |
| 0:57.8 | He shot the door. |
| 0:59.8 | No one had ever shot a door during an examination in the past, |
| 1:04.4 | and they had given me medical exams various times. |
| 1:09.3 | Over the next approximately 30 minutes, according to a letter, |
| 1:12.6 | I atomizing complaints to the Department of Homeland Security's |
| 1:15.4 | Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Office, |
| 1:17.8 | the nurse touched Maria's breasts, rubbed his penis against her hand, |
| 1:21.8 | made repeated inappropriate sexual remarks, |
| 1:24.3 | resisted her attempts to push away his hand, |
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