A federal lawsuit has alleged that a corrections officer at Rikers Island jail sexually abused a female inmate on a bus for 20 minutes, and his colleague watched the rape as it was happening.
The guards’ names are Figueroa and Pearson, and the woman who sued them was not identified, in accordance with standard practice in rape cases, New York Daily News reported.
The two guards were driving the woman and five male prisoners from Brooklyn to Rikers on March 20, when the incident happened.
First, a male inmate bribed one of the officers, apparently to have consensual sex with the female prisoner, but then the officer returned and told the male inmate to go away, according to the New York Daily News.
Afterwards, Figueroa pushed the woman down on to a seat in the back of the vehicle, and despite her protesting and asking him to use a condom, he raped her, telling the victim that he “wanted to give Pearson a show.”
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