An attorney who represents multiple women who say they were sexually assaulted by a Rikers Island corrections officer is asking the Department of Corrections to review how it responds to civil sexual assault claims, saying some women might have avoided harm if officials had investigated sooner.

Attorney Anna Kull says her client, Karina Collado, filed a civil lawsuit in May 2023, accusing Rikers Island correction officer “CO Martin Jr.” of sexually assaulting her while she was detained at the jail complex about three years prior.

But even though there was only one correction officer with that surname working at the jail at the time, the Department of Corrections did not suspend Anthony Martin Jr., and he was allowed to continue working as an officer, according to an agency spokesperson a

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