A Korean woman is suing the Department of Homeland Security for $ 5 million, for the sexual assault that she suffered during a citizenship interview.
The woman claims that Officer Kelvin Renard Owens asked her during a June 2004 interview "If I let you pass, what are you going to give me?" He then bodily assaulted her and asked her to meet him outside the building to find out whether she had passed the test.
Owens pleaded guilty in federal court to sexual assault in March 2005. A judge ordered him to spend weekends in prison for six months. The judge also put him on probation for five years and fined him.
A lawyer for the U-S Citizenship and Immigration Service denied any liability in an April letter to the woman's lawyer, saying Owens was not acting within the course or scope of his job.
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