BREAKING: Lawyers allege abuse of migrant women by gynecologist for Georgia ICE detention center. Our new reporting following whistleblower allegation of unnecessary procedures, including hysterectomies. With @JuliaEAinsley and @daniellalsilva. nbcnews.com/news/latino/nu…
WATCH: I spoke with the whistleblower, nurse Dawn Wooten, who made the complaint with @ProjectSouth and the @GovAcctProj to the DHS IG about a high number of hysterectomies.
“I had a detainee who asked me," she said, "what is he doing, collecting all of our uteruses?"
Immigration attorney @SarahOwings5 tells @NBCNews "I don’t think this is necessarily a systemic sterilization by ICE I think this is the kind of thing that is allowed to flourish in the course of poor oversight and terrible, inhumane conditions of confinement."
The doctor, who three lawyers identified as Dr. Mahendra Amin, practicing in Douglas, Georgia, has continued to see women from the Irwin County Detention Center for the past several years despite complaints from his patients. nbcnews.com/news/latino/nu…
The whistleblower complaint was first reported by @jbwashing and @jlosc9 at @theintercept. theintercept.com/2020/09/14/ice…
Also want to note: the identify of the doctor who allegedly performed the procedures was first reported by @TheTinaVasquez for @prismreports. prismreports.org/article/2020/9…
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