 ANOTHER KROME DETAINEE MAKES CHARGES OF SEXUAL ABUSE
Eddy Pierre Paul, a Haitian immigrant in detention pending his deportation, has accused an employee at the Krome Detention Center in Miami of pressuring him for sexual favors in exchange for securing his release. The charges come just more than three months after female detainees were removed from the facility following repeated accusations that guards were sexually abusing them.
According to Paul, a male computer analyst repeatedly pressured him, and he eventually acquiesced. He later reported the incident to a psychiatrist at the facility. The INS sent him to a local hospital for more extensive treatment and reported the allegation to the Justice Department, which is already investigating the earlier claims of abuse. The employee, who has not been identified, has been relocated.
Critics of conditions at Krome say that the latest allegation shows that the INS never took any steps to address the problems that plague the facility. According to Cheryl Little, the Director of the Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center, “Given INS' failure in the past to hold its people accountable when they break the law, it is not surprising to hear there are more problems at Krome.”
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