part 2
Hale-Cusanelli was a contractor at a New Jersey Naval Weapons Station as well as a U.S. Army Reserves member who was found guilty on all charges relating to his illegal entry into the Capitol, according to NPR. His former coworkers claimed he harbored white supremacist views, with them recalling statements such as “Hitler should have finished the job.”
Hughes said that Hale-Cusanelli developed severe ear infections while incarcerated that became so bad that his ear began bleeding. The inmate begged for help but was denied medical care for a long time, she said, adding that he developed the same infection with the same symptoms in the other ear later on.
“When we went to trial I was not allowed to embrace him, I was not allowed to hug him,” Hughes added. “He was treated like a hardened criminal, like a murderer.”
Authorities arrested Robert Morss, who is in his late twenties, in June 2021 and charged him with “federal offenses that include assaulting, resisting or impeding certain officers; obstruction of an official proceeding; civil disorder; and robbery of personal property of the United States,” the DOJ said in a press release.
His mother told The Daily Wire that he has been imprisoned for more than a year. She said he was subjected to “terrible” conditions while incarcerated at the D.C. Correctional Treatment Facility before being transferred to Northern Neck Regional Jail in Virginia.
“There were times when his rations there smelled like cleaning fluid, there are pubic hairs in his food sometimes, and the drinking water was dirty, absolutely terrible mold in the cells, roaches lived amongst them, that type of thing,” she said.
She also claimed that he was the victim of an unprovoked, “extensive” assault that had a “sexual component to it.” Morss believes the attack occurred because the guards were “frustrated” with his attorney and were acting out of retaliation against his representation.
“There were five guards,” she said of this alleged assault, saying it “included mace” and “him being naked.”
“It was really horrific,” the prisoner’s mother said.
“It’s extremely painful because you wouldn’t imagine that anything like this could happen in America,” she continued. “And with his training, I know that he is strong. He can withstand a lot. But really, there’s only so much a person can take. And so, you know, my heart is very sad for him and what he is having to endure and what is being ignored by so many.”
The DOJ did not immediately respond to a request for comment concerning the alleged assault on the inmate. According to the June 2021 DOJ press release, Morss led “an assault on police and organized support from other rioters” during the riot on the lower west terrace of the U.S. Capitol.
“In this country, we have something called due process,” Hughes said. “And no matter what the charge of crime is, you’re entitled to your day in court. You’re entitled to a fair and speedy trial. You’re entitled to due process. These people, because they are Trump supporters, are not getting those things. It’s not just the people that are arrested and charged in this. It’s the families.”
Hughes called the January 6 Commission hearings “political theater,” and said Democrats are using them to target Trump supporters.
“If you listen to the committee hearing the very first thing it aired with Liz Cheney, all she did was go on and on and on about Donald Trump. Donald Trump. Donald Trump. That’s what this is about. And it’s really time for the American people to wake up and say, enough.”
The District of Columbia Department of Corrections did not respond to requests for comment for this story.
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