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Ross takes some solace knowing that at least one of her tormenters was brought to justice. Since his release from prison in 2007, Damioun Cole has been living with his mother in Miami Gardens under supervised release. He is also a registered sex offender in Florida.
But his punishment will never heal her emotional scars, Ross laments. "Closure for me is seeing all four of those men who sexually abused me punished or dead," she says. She pleaded with New Times not to disclose her whereabouts. Even when goodhearted people offer to help her, Ross says, she has a hard time trusting them. "They can never undo," she says, referring to the guards, "what they done to me."
