January 16th at 10 o’clock, only on WGVU Public Television, FRONTLINE presents Rape on the Night Shift. As the #MeToo conversation spreads beyond the worlds of Hollywood, media and politics, Rape on the Night Shift reveals sexual abuse of female immigrant janitors. WGVU spoke with its producer.
“You can be in the middle of the city in the middle of the night and nobody knows where you are except for your supervisor who has all the keys and knows where all the cameras are.”
Andres Cediel is a producer for FRONTLINE and the investigative reporting program at U.C. Berkeley.
“Any crime of sexual assault is really predicated on a power imbalance. And when you think about the power imbalance between an immigrant woman working at night by herself and her boss who controls her schedule, controls her pay, she’s as vulnerable as you can get in our society…One of the more shocking cases that we profile is a man who was a sex offender who despite repeated complaints from women that he was harassing and assaulting them the company didn’t take action. So it comes down to the fact that even if there are policies in place if you don’t implement those policies, and you don’t look out for what’s happening to the workers, the abuse can just continue to be rampant.”
FRONTLINE presents Rape on the Night Shift tonight at 10 o’clock on WGVU Public Television.
I’m Patrick Center.