Legal Opinion
Konah v. District of Columbia
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided September 20, 2013No. Civil Action No. 2010-0904PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
ROSEMARY M. COLLYER, District Judge.
Lena T. Konah worked as a licensed practical nurse at the D.C. Jail until the events that underlie this lawsuit caused her to take a leave of absence and eventually decide not to return. On her last day of work, Ms. Konah was accosted by a group of semi-clothed inmates who made repeated lewd comments and one of whom grabbed her buttocks. Totally unnerved by the experience, Ms. Konah contends that the District of Columbia failed to train its correctional employees to respond adequately to inmates’ sexual abuse of staff and thus violated her right to…
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