Posted on 12/01/2018 5:23:59 PM PST by Morgana
FULL TITLE: Grandmother, 55, sues Miami prison after staff book her as a MAN despite strip search and lock her up in a male jail with 40 men who taunted and leered at her
A grandmother who was mistakenly booked into Miami jail as man is now she's suing prison workers who forced her to spend nearly 10 hours in a male cell where she was so tormented she wet herself.
Fior Pichardo de Veloz, 55, was booked in the Metro West Detention Center in Miami on November 4, 2013.
Pichardo was an attorney and elected official in the Dominican Republic and came to Miami to witness the birth of her grandchild.
But her plans went awry when she was arrested at the airport for an old drug case she didn't know was outstanding, according to the Miami Herald.
After a strip-search she was classified as a woman, but the jail doctor and nurse wrongly booked her as a man, claiming she was transgender with male genitalia.
They saw her menopause pills and Dr. Fredesvindo Rodriguez-Garcia and nurse Fatu Kamara Harris wrongly thought she was taking hormone tablets because she was transgender.
The decision went against the arresting officer who listed Pichardo as female and against a female officer strip search, where her private areas were examined.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Okay, what about the background renders you less sympathetic? The fact that she had an outstanding drug charge? The outstanding charge she didn’t even knew existed? The article certainly didn’t give details of that drug charge to even know the severity of that charge.
You could actually read the article.
Or any of several which have been posted over the last few days.
Why didn’t they just go with what was written in his/her passport?
Well, she just won the lottery.
Small wonder she wasn’t raped.
Imagine that it had been a 55-year-old man who mistakenly spent a night in jail with women. Would the possibility of his being raped even arise?
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