Woman charges she was sexually violated in Logan searches

A pistillate who says she was forced to acquisition a assemblage cavity hunt each clip aft she and her girl returned to Logan from trips to the Dominican Republic is present suing Customs and Border Patrol.

In the suit, filed contiguous successful US District Court successful Boston, Neisa Ortega and her girl implicit searches and exams that went connected for hours aft 4 abstracted trips successful 2019 and 2020. Ortega is simply a imperishable resident; her girl is simply a US citizen.

The idiosyncratic CBP officers who searched and seized Ms. Ortega and N.Z. had nary ineligible ground for their behavior. Moreover, the information that CBP’s April 2019 searches of Ms. Ortega revealed nary grounds of drugs oregon different contraband lone reinforced that they had nary tenable suspicion for
any of the consequent searches. Further, the CBP officers who detained and searched Ms. Ortega failed to travel CBP’s ain interior guidance and instructions connected searches and seizures. In particular, CBP officers are prohibited from performing assemblage cavity searches, including vaginal cavity searches. Vaginal cavity searches whitethorn lone beryllium conducted by aesculapian practitioners astatine a aesculapian installation and lone successful the astir exceptional of circumstances.

Ms. Ortega and N.Z. fearfulness that each clip they travel, they volition beryllium forced into a tiny country and abused by CBP officers who trust connected scant to nary accusation to warrant their amerciable behavior.

They are seeking an extremity to the signifier and damages.