The following excerpt is from Rojas v. Brown, 1:17-cv-01514-DAD-JLT (E.D. Cal. 2019):
A sexual assault on an inmate by a prison official implicates the rights protected by the Eighth Amendment. Schwenk, 204 F.3d at 1197; see also Boddie v. Schnieder, 105 F.3d 857, 861 (2d Cir. 1997) (Sexual abuse may violate contemporary standards of decency and can cause severe physical and psychological harm). For this reason, severe or repetitive sexual abuse of an inmate by a prison
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