| Women
Inmates Sued NYC For Moving Them To
Bedford Hills Now Sex Abuse Suit Proceeds
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Feb 9 – Three women sued
the City of New York for its
transfer of women and
transgender pre-trial
detainees to the Bedford Hills
Correctional Facility, where
they say they were abused
including sexually abused.
On
February 9, 2022 U.S. District
Court for the Southern
District of New York Judge
Lorna G. Schofield held a Zoom
proceeding. Inner City Press
covered it.
Judge
Schofield said lawyers have
told her they miss being in
the courtroom, so she had set
up this proceeding in a civil
case by Zoom than than simply
phone.
The
Complaint quotes Correction
Officer A saying, "You want a
f*cking problem? You think
you're f*cking tough? Yea
what's up?"
Then Correction
Officer A threw Plaintiff Sue
Brown onto the floor.
And given
the abuse at issue in the
case, things were surprisingly
civil.
On October 7,
2022 in a separate case but
also about Bedford Hills, SDNY
Judge Ronnie Abrams convened
the parties to deliver her
ruling on the defendants'
motion to dismiss. She denied
the motion, recounting from
the complaint abuse and
indications of inappropriate
sexual relations and saying
qualified immunity did not
apply. The case will proceed.
The first, Judge
Schofield case is Brown et al
v. City of New York et al.,
21-cv-10492 (Schofield)
The second case
is Smith v. Annucci, et al.,
21-cv-1715 (Abrams)
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