Dozens Of Women Allege Unwanted Surgeries And Medical Abuse In ICE Custody
By Joel Rose
December 22, 2020
One former detainee says she was already in a hospital gown this past July, waiting to be wheeled into surgery, when she began to suspect something was very wrong. Jaromy Floriano Navarro thought she was getting an operation to remove a cyst on her ovary — until the driver who brought her to the hospital said otherwise.
“She was just like, ‘You know you’re having a hysterectomy, right?’ ” Floriano tells NPR in an interview. “And I was in shock, because I knew what that meant.”