I am just appalled.

…se her sense of taste and smell and her pounding head would grow too heavy to lift from her pillow. At the end of the month, a 61-year-old survivor of domestic and sexual violence who had been preparing her DVSJA case from behind bars at Bedford Hills died of Covid-19, the first such fatality of a woman incarcerated in New York. Nikki would recover but would be unable to see Ben and Faye indefinitely; brief daily phone calls w…

She Had Proof She’d Been Abused. But Was it Enough?

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Justine van der Leun

Tom Ritchford

1 min readMay 31, 2020

I am just appalled. The system failed her in every possible way. No, “failed” is too passive — the system deliberately abused her.

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