Washington DC Escorts: Doctors clear way for asylum seekers
Written on October 8, 2009 – 5:48 am | by hookerlooker
WASHINGTON — After a long day of treating diabetes, hypertension and high cholesterol, physician Randi Abramson shifted gears one recent evening to face a different litany of complaints: beatings with whips, burns with cigarettes, repeated rapes, mock drownings, sexual slavery.
“Man,” Abramson said as she stepped from an exam room at Bread for the City’s medical clinic. “That was a really sad one.”
Abramson drops onto a stool, composing her thoughts before entering on a laptop the horrifying story of her most recent patient at the nonprofit’s new monthly clinic for political asylum-seekers: a 24-year-old Kenyan woman who recently fled Mexico and is petitioning to stay in the United States. She was raised by abusive grandparents who beat her and subjected her to genital mutilation at age 10. Cast out by her family for choosing school over marriage, she was tricked into a prostitution ring couched as a scholarship opportunity. She ended up in a Mexican brothel, where she was held captive, beaten and knifed by a customer.