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Alabama Guards Get Qualified Immunity for Failing to Prevent Rape of 11-Year-Old Prisoner

The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeal has held that guards are entitled to qualified immunity on federal claims, but not to Alabama state-agent immunity on state-law claims, in a lawsuit involving the rape of an eleven-year-old MCYF detainee by a fifteen-year-old detainee.

D.S. was raped by C.P. on April 18, ...

 

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