WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–November 20, 2013. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report today entitled, “Additional Actions Could Strengthen DHS Efforts to Address Sexual Abuse.”
Among the noteworthy report findings are that only 7 percent of 215 allegations of sexual assault in immigration detention facilities from 2010 to 2012 were substantiated, which may suggest insufficiently thorough investigations and that 40 percent of the 70 allegations from 10 facilities that the GAO visited were never actually reported to…
