"Rape table" allegations leveled at Newark customs officers, feds investigating

[True Dough]

It's 2017. How is this sort of stuff still happening???

The Department of Homeland Security is investigating allegations that U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency officers at Newark Airport have been subjected to sexually abusive hazing by veteran officers, including the duct-taping of victims to a "rape table."

"I’m afraid for my life, my safety," CBP officer Diana Cifuentes told the NBC 4 New York I-Team in an exclusive interview about the abuse she says she suffered at the hands of fellow officers. "This is terrorizing. How is it that officers believe they’re free to do whatever they want to do?"

CBP confirmed the investigation by the DOH Inspector General after Cifuentes and two other current officers, all members of the agency’s Passenger Enforcement Roving Team, detailed the shocking allegations to NBC 4 New York.

"Hazing wouldn’t do this justice. This is complete assault. They take you in a room and your fellow officers are all watching as officers grab you," said CBP officer Vito Degironimo.

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/investigations/Hazing-Customs-Officers-Newark-Airport-Border-Patrol-Sex-Investigation-Rape-Table-Feds-Allegations-Security-Camera-421748953.html

[MineralMan]

1. Wow! If true, that's beyond deplorable.

I hope they have some real evidence, like video, to back up the charges.

[elehhhhna]

2. They're one short hop away from the waterboarding table

[geek tragedy]

3. CBP agents union endorsed Trump, go figure nt

[Warren DeMontague]

4. If I had to pick an airport in this country most likely to have shit like that going down

it would be Newark by a mile.

[politicat]

5. If this is what they're doing to their coworkers, what are they doing to travelers?

I can't say I'll be surprised if this is confirmed, and I expect people who are coming through customs are getting similar if not worse treatment, because travelers leave, and don't have HR or a network, and if they're immigrants, they have at least as much to lose by complaining.

Customs is looking more and more like it actively recruits and trains sadism.