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Immigration Guard Could Serve Less Time for Sexual Assault Than His Victim Did in Detention

HeadlineApr 25, 2016

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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