By Matt Coyne
LoHud
WESTCHESTER COUNTY — The county has settled out of court with a transgender individual who allegedly was sexually assaulted while being held in Westchester County Jail.
The victim, identified as both Wilson Lojan and Mishele in court documents, settled for $65,000. The county Board of Legislators approved the settlement last week.
In March 2011, Lojan, an Ecuadorian national living in New York state, was put in county jail after charges stemming from attacking a 25-year-old man with scissors in Mount Pleasant.
According to court documents, the sexual assault took place that August when a fellow inmate with a history of violent conduct, who was employed by the county to assist corrections officers, gained access to Lojan’s cell to give Lojan a broom. The inmate then grabbed Lojan’s surgically enhanced breasts before forcing Lojan to perform oral sex on him, court documents said.
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