In agreeing to pay $250,000 to a woman who claimed she was raped repeatedly by a Correction Captain and several Correction Officers at Rikers Island on separate occasions in 2013 and 2014 and another $950,000 to her attorneys, the city Law Department issued a statement that began, “The safety and security of those entrusted to the care of [the Department of Correction] is a top priority.”
Not really, according to the Federal Judge, Alison Nathan, who had been hearing the case and wondered why the two correction employees who have been identified by name as among the woman’s assailants, now-retired Capt. Pablo Porter and Correction Officer Emma Williams, have not been criminally charged by the Bronx District Attorney’s Office.
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