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New York Prison Worker Not Kidnapped/Raped Long Enough For Compensation
Loaded on Jan. 15, 2007
by Gary Hunter
published in Prison Legal News
January, 2007, page 37
On December 28, 2004, a 52-year old female employee at New York?s Camp Cass juvenile facility was accosted by 16-year old Michael Elston who choked her, banged her head against a wall and raped her at knife-point. Elston then forced his hostage into her car and drove around for six ...
Filed under:
Prisoner-Staff Assault,
Criminal Prosecution,
Guards/Staff,
Assaults on Staff.
Location:
New York.
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