| NYC
Youth Jail
Employee Was
Indicted for
Assaulting
Teen Now
Dispute If
Video Exists
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
July 9 – An
assault on an
inmate in
NYC's
detention
center for
juveniles in
The Bronx
resulted in
the indictment
of two
employees
there.
Both
were offered
bail on July
26; one
however wanted
to leave the
next morning
on a vacation
to Mexico. The
request was
granted but
the
prosecutors
said they
would appeal.
Inner City
Press was
there for the
arraignment
and will
continue to
report on the
case.
The
prosecutors
began the day
announcing
charges
against DAQUAN
SEYMOUR and
RASHAWN
WALKER, two
supervisors at
the Horizon
Juvenile
Center
(“Horizon”), a
secure
detention
center for
juveniles
located in the
Bronx, New
York.
The charges
relate to the
April 25,
2022, beating
of a
16-year-old
resident at
Horizon and
attempt to
cover-up the
beating.
SEYMOUR and
WALKER were
charged with
federal civil
rights
offenses,
including
conspiring to
deprive the
Minor Victim
of his
constitutional
rights and
depriving the
Minor Victim
of his
constitutional
rights under
color of law,
as well as
filing false
reports.
SEYMOUR and
WALKER were
arrested this
morning and
will be
presented in
Manhattan
federal court
later
today.
The case has
been assigned
to U.S.
District Court
for the
Southern
District of
New York Judge
Edgardo
Ramos.
The
appeal, from
Magistrate
Judge Valerie
Figueredo's
decision based
on Seymour's
children
remaining in
the US, was to
be directed to
Judge Ramos or
to the Part 1
judge. As of
10:30 pm there
was nothing in
the docket.
On
July 27 Inner
City Press
asked and was
told that the
vacation to
Mexico was
allowed and
has begun.
From the
docket: "BAIL
DISPOSITION:
Deft released
on own
recognizance;
$100,000
Personal
recognizance
bond; To be
cosigned by
two
financially
responsible
persons;
Travel
restricted to
SDNY/EDNY and
Mexico for the
preplanned
trip from July
27-July 31 -
surrender
passport to
attorney on
8/1/23."
On
October 10,
Judge Ramos
amid a murder
trial he is
presiding over
held a
conference:
"The defense
needs time to
review
discovery."
Jump
cut to July 9,
2024 when
Seymour's
lawyer wrote
in asking the
Court to order
that the NYSJC
and
Investigator
Nicholas
Ferraro
produce copies
of the video
he referenced
in his May 9,
2022 interview
with the
victim."
The case is US
v. Seymour, et
al., 23-cr-373
(Ramos /
Figueredo)
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