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Readers please note that the post contains references to sexual assault. Take care of yourselves and each other for possible triggers.

It was almost exactly a year ago that the T. Don Hutto detention center in Texas stopped incarcerating immigrant families, and there are still horror stories being revealed. Most recently, the ACLU reported that last week a Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) employee at the T. Don Hutto immigration detention facility in Taylor, TX charged with sexually abusing numerous female immigration detainees.

Donald Charles Dunn, a resident supervisor at the Hutto facility, is accused of abusing the detainees as he was transporting them to the airport after they had been released on bond and has allegedly admitted to telling the women that he was going to “frisk” them before touching their breasts and genital areas for his gratification, according to Sheriff’s officials in Williamson County, TX. Dunn is charged with official oppression and unlawful restraint.

I have never heard of “official oppression” as a criminal charge and was struck by it’s use and the absence of the use of any criminal charges for “sexual assault”. So I did a little search. Apparently “Official Oppression” is a Texas only law and it involves a law enforcement officer using their powers inappropriately, including sexually.

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