The 31-year-old alleged sufferer, Ana Allen, wrote in graphic element how she was cornered in a bathe stall Dec. 30 in unit 4E on the Rose M. Singer Middle by a bodily stronger alleged perpetrator and raped.
“She pushed me against the wall and shoved me over the trash can in one motion,” Allen writes. “I felt gross, I felt used, violated, weak … I said ‘No, no, no’ again and again.”
Within the aftermath of the assault, Allen claims her requests for a switch and medical consideration have been ignored. When she lastly was moved to a brand new unit Jan. 3 and reported the rape, a DOC investigator interviewed her in entrance of different workers and detainees, she writes.
Allen, who agreed to be named for this story, wrote the criticism Jan. 6 meaning to file it in Manhattan federal courtroom, however the go well with has but to be formally filed. She is demanding a legal investigation and damages for her ordeal.
Helen Skipper, vice chair of town Board of Correction, known as the allegations, “horrific.”
“It raises major concerns pertaining to policy and procedure for DOC, Correctional Health Services and PREA,” she mentioned, referring to the DOC unit answerable for probing intercourse assault claims.
On Thursday, at a Board of Correction listening to, DOC First Deputy Commissioner Francis Torres mentioned she had no information of the incident, whereas DOC common counsel James Conroy confirmed the allegations had been referred to the Bronx DA.
Latima Johnson, a DOC spokeswoman, declined remark citing pending litigation.
“We work to ensure that everyone in our care is safe from violence and any report of sexual assault in investigated thoroughly,” Johnson mentioned in an announcement. “We will not tolerate any type of assault or abuse in our facilities. If the accusations are substantiated, we will pursue accountability and consequences.”
Dr. Victoria Phillips of the Jails Motion Coalition, famous one in 4 ladies in RMSC is a intercourse assault survivor. “In 2025, why must I highlight a detainee’s assault and demand accountability?” she mentioned. “This case, like others, was nearly buried.”
“I don’t want this”
Allen was despatched to Rikers after an arrest by Port Authority police Dec. 8 close to the bus terminal simply west of Instances Sq. for allegedly threatening passengers with a loaded gun on a bus from Washington, D.C. to the Large Apple. She was ordered held on Rikers pending a switch to New Jersey to face the fees.
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Rikers Island Jail at Hazen Avenue and nineteenth Avenue in Queens on Monday September 13, 2021. (Theodore Parisienne)
On Dec. 29, Allen was moved to Unit 4E the place inside 10 minutes she mentioned she encountered the alleged perpetrator, who she mentioned instantly “claimed” her.
“I’m on you,” the lady instructed Allen, including she would “crack” anybody else who approached her.
That evening, the lady received excessive on “pills”, and introduced she was going to have intercourse with Allen.
“I don’t want this,” Allen instructed her.
Allen writes that the her attacker carried a makeshift blade wrapped in tissue in her waistband and brandished it in entrance of officers. Allen claims the lady bullied and generally hit different detainees. At one level, Allen writes, a correction officer noticed the knife and merely mentioned, “put that thing away.”
“I lived in fear … I would get cut by her,” Allen writes.
On the evening of Dec. 30, the attacker cornered Allen on her mattress.
“Just leave me alone,” Allen requested.
Allen, in her criticism, graphically outlined a violent and forcible rape, at one level the assailant flattening Allen’s boxers and making an attempt to power oral intercourse on her.
“You’re not going anywhere,” the lady allegedly mentioned.
Allen writes correction officers watched them depart a provide closet however didn’t act. The assault, she wrote, continued in a rest room bathe stall, the place she says her attacker used intercourse toys.
“I couldn’t do anything but accept knowing that no one was coming to help me,” Allen mentioned.
Allen struggled however she couldn’t get away. She banged on the bathe stall to get the eye of the officers. An officer entered the toilet and ordered them to go away.
Lastly, the attacker left the toilet and Allen desperately washed herself.
“I scrubbed my skin so hard as if I could wash it away,” she wrote.
Allen requested to be transferred on Dec. 31, Jan. 1 and Jan. 2, however she was ignored.
On Jan 1, Allen known as her boyfriend and instructed him what occurred to her, she writes. “I explained on a recorded line that I have been raped and am seeking real help,” she writes.
“There needs to be a consequence.”
No privateness
Throughout an April 24 council listening to on intercourse assault within the jails, the DOC official accountable for investigations, Jonathan Levine, mentioned his workers is cautious to maintain identities of sexual assault victims confidential.
“We do take every one of the complaints seriously and they do get fully investigated,” he mentioned.
DOC Chief of Division Sherrie Rembert underscored the company’s “zero tolerance policy” for sexual assault.
Victims are “removed immediately from their dormitory or cell and placed in a secure location,” Rembert mentioned.
However Allen mentioned in her writing that was not her expertise. On Jan. 3, she was lastly capable of report the assault and brought to a hospital the place a rape package was carried out. She was then escorted to a unique unit.
An investigator with the so-called Jail Reform Elimination Act unit was contacted and interviewed her in entrance of correction workers and different detainees, she writes.
“PREA came to speak to me in the most unprofessional way,” she wrote. “I had no privacy to tell my story.”
She claims potential witnesses have been additionally questioned within the presence of different detainees.
“The witnesses were scared and didn’t want to say anything further,” Allen wrote.
