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Title: Transgender woman tells panel of prison abuse
Post by: tinkerbell on December 14, 2006, 10:51:38 PM
Post by: tinkerbell on December 14, 2006, 10:51:38 PM
QuoteSuffering years of violence and harassment as a transsexual in Mexico, Mayra Soto sought asylum in what she hoped would be a more tolerant United States. But the trauma continued here. She was detained in an immigrant detention center in Los Angeles and forced by a guard to perform oral sex on him under the threat of violence, she said.
Full Article (http://www.advocate.com/news_detail_ektid40404.asp)
Wow, this is so sad. My heart goes out to her, and hopefully something positive will come out from all this...
tinkerbell :icon_chick: