"A corrections officer at New York’s notorious Rikers Island jail complex was indicted Friday on charges of raping a female inmate in November.

Any sex between a guard and an incarcerated person—who cannot legally consent—is rape. The woman the New York Daily News has identified as the victim, Jacqueline Healy, has said that the guard, a nine-year veteran of Rikers named Jose Cosme, forced her into a storage closet out of view of the security cameras. There, she says, he raped her with a blank look on his face, “like he wasn’t there.” Healy told the Daily News that she mailed the shirt she was wearing at the time of the attack to relatives, hoping to preserve the evidence..."

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