Prisoner claims she was sexually assaulted by a trans inmate with male genitalia at New Jersey women’s prison

Sep 7, 2023 by Jill

by Miriam Kuepper, Mailonline:

Two other women got ‘pregnant from sexual interactions with transgenders’, lawsuit alleges.

A female prisoner has claimed she was sexually assaulted by a trans inmate with male genitalia at a women’s prison.

The inmate at Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women in New Jersey, where she has been locked up since 2003, claims she was assaulted in September and October last year.

She has now filed a lawsuit against the New Jersey Department of Corrections over the alleged lack of ‘corrective action’ taken by prison guards about the ‘sexually aggressive and harassing behavior of the transgenders’.

The department is accused of failing to implement actions to protect inmates even after ‘two female inmates became pregnant from sexual interactions with transgenders’, according to local news outlet My Central Jersey.

She said she reported the assault by the transgender inmate – only identified with initials in the lawsuit – to staff at Edna Mahan, but was given disciplinary action instead, it says in the lawsuit filed on August 29 by Somerville attorney James Wronko.

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