Berks County to pay $75,000 to settle sexual assault case brought by woman in ICE detention

January 24, 2020 | KYW Talk Radio | Cherri Gregg
"We are glad that this case was able to shine a spotlight on abuse in immigration detention" - Su Ming Yeh, Interim Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Institutional Law Project

KYW Newsradio's Cherri Gregg spoke with Su Ming Yeh about our client E.D., the sexual abuse case, and the resulting settlement with Berks ICE Facility.

Listen below, or here on the KYW site

Berks County will pay tens of thousands of dollars to a woman who was detained in its ICE facility. The settlement came on the eve of a trial scheduled to begin today. As KYW Newsradio's Community Affairs reporter Cherri Gregg explains- the woman was sexually abused as a teenager by one of the staffers.