- Two women at Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood claim they were sexually assaulted by a jail staff member.
- The women are among the dozens of plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed in October that described sexual abuse by guards, including allegations that male deputies would watch inmates shower.
- The Sheriff’s Department said it’s investigating the claims and “maintains a zero-tolerance policy towards any form of sexual abuse or harassment within its facilities.”
Both women say it happened in a blind spot in a dark stairwell.
There — out of view of Century Regional Detention Facility’s many security cameras — they claim a jailer sexually assaulted them while they were handcuffed.
The two women, whose names are being withheld because The Times generally does not identify victims of alleged sexual assault, spoke in phone calls from the jail in Lynwood, where they remain incarcerated. They claim male jail staffers forced them to engage in oral sex, groped and ogled them and offered clean water and other basic supplies in exchange for sexual acts.
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