City Pays $4M to Rikers Detainee After His Five Rape Claims Were Ignored

Terrence told jail officials again and again that he’d been raped — five times, he said, over the course of multiple stints in city custody.

He filed reports, flagged officers and in two instances, pointed to video that seemed to back him up, including one in which a fellow male detainee is seen leaving the victim’s cell with what appears to be a wet spot on the front of his pants.

But each time, jail investigators brushed his claims aside, labeling them “unsubstantiated” or “unfounded.”…

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