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April 25, 2016

Immigration Guard Could Serve Less Time for Sexual Assault Than His Victim Did in Detention
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A guard at a private immigrant detention center in Pennsylvania will go
to prison after admitting he sexually assaulted a 19-year-old Honduran
woman. Daniel Sharkey is the first worker at a family detention center
to be convicted of institutional sexual assault, despite previous
reports of sexual abuse in such facilities. He has been sentenced to six
to 23 months in prison; there is a chance he will serve less time than
his victim and her three-year-old son spent in detention after fleeing
abuse in Honduras.


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