Sexual Assault Conviction for Immigration Detention Facility Worker

Immigration Impact reports on the conviction of Daniel Sharkey, a former counselor at the Berks County Residential Center (located in Berks County, PA), for sexual assaults of a young Honduran mother fleeing violence in her home country.  His sentence will be anywhere from six to twenty-three months in jail for what Immigration Impact describes as “repeated sexual assaults” that “took place throughout the detention center.” Sadly, reports of sexual assaults on women in immigration detention facilities are not new. 

-JKoh