By C1 Staff
MIAMI, Fla. — An unnamed corrections officer with the Miami-Dade correctional facility is alleging that though she was assaulted by 17 inmates and three other corrections officers were injured in the incident, no one in administration contacted the police for over two months.
According to NBC, the alleged assault took place at the pre-trial detention facility near downtown Miami where the woman says she was assaulted when a cell door that was supposed to be closed was opened.
More than 70 days went by, according to the CO, before she came to believe that no management was going to report that she was a victim of a beating and sexual battery.
At that point, she threatened to break the jail’s chain of command rules and make the police report herself, if her supervisors didn’t call the police right then.
Police were notified on Saturday, March 15; 73 days after the attack. The assaulted officer provided a list of inmates’ names that were involved in the incident.
“I was pushed, punched … in my head, face, neck… abdomen and back; the inmates began to grab my vaginal area, breast and buttocks,” she said in the report. “I was kicked in the vaginal area and groped by several inmates. While I was being sexually assaulted … I thought I was about to be gang raped.”
The day after the report was filed, police arrested the inmate the CO identified as the ringleader of the incident, Derrick Harrell.
The CO is also calling for the state to investigate why the police weren’t called; she also wants the other inmates involved to be prosecuted. Harrell has entered a not guilty plea.
The DOC declined all requests for comment.