Trans Woman Was Beaten in ICE Custody Before Death, Autopsy Findsby Scott Bixby and Betsy Woodruff
11.26.18 1:26 PM ET
The Daily Beast
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trans-woman-roxsana-hernandez-rodriguez-beaten-in-ice-custody-before-death-pathologist-finds?ref=scrollRoxsana Rodriguez died following lack of medical treatment in a privately run immigration detention center. An autopsy concludes that she was beaten."A transgender woman who died in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody at a privately operated detention center was likely physically abused there, according an autopsy report released Monday, and died after several days of severe, untreated dehydration.
"Roxsana Hernández Rodriguez, a 33-year-old transgender woman from Honduras, died on May 25, nine days after being transferred to a dedicated unit for transgender women at the Cibola County Correctional Center in New Mexico, which is operated under contract by CoreCivic, the second-largest private prison company in the United States.
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"Sperry's autopsy, the second conducted on Hernández Rodriguez's body following her death, also found evidence of physical abuse, with "deep bruising" on her hands and abdomen, evidence of blunt-force trauma "indicative of blows, and/or kicks, and possible strikes with blunt object." An accompanying diagram illustrated long, thin bruises along Hernández Rodriguez's back and sides, as well as extensive hemorrhaging on Hernández Rodriguez's right and left wrists, which Dr. Sperry found were "typical of handcuff injuries. . . ."
