Pennsylvania woman blamed for her own rape in state response to lawsuit
The Pennsylvania attorney general's office is blaming a former state prison clerk for her own rape, in response to a federal lawsuit the woman filed.
The 24-year-old typist was working at the state prison at Rockview in Bellefonte,
Pennsylvania, when she was attacked in 2013. She was choked unconscious
and raped for 27 minutes by inmate Omar Best, who had been convicted
three times previously of sex-related crimes, and then been transferred
from a different state prison for assaulting a female assistant there.
