Guard Held in Sexual Attack on Transgender Inmate

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Guard Held in Sexual Attack on Transgender Inmate
By ANAHAD O'CONNOR
Published: October 7, 2010

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/08/nyregion/08inmate.html?_r=1

A New York City correction officer was arrested and charged on Thursday with forcing a transgender inmate to engage in a sex act with him at a Manhattan jail.

The victim, a 23-year-old transgender woman, was an inmate in a male housing unit at the Manhattan Detention Complex near City Hall, where she was being held on a parole violation, when the attack took place in September 2009.

According to a suit filed against the city last month, the woman said the correction officer, Roberto Morales, 40, groped and sexually harassed her several times over the course of about a month.