Grandmother Locked in Jail Cell With 40 Men Can Sue Staff for Negligence

In an undated photo, Fior Pichardo de Veloz, 55, has brought a lawsuit against a doctor and nurse at the Miami-Dade Corrections Department after she was mistakenly booked into a Florida jail as a man and forced to spend 10 hours in a holding cell with male inmates. Miami-Dade Corrections Department

A federal judge in Florida has ruled that a lawsuit filed by a grandmother who was booked into a jail as a man may go ahead after the woman spent nearly 10 hours in a holding cell with male inmates.

Fior Pichardo de Veloz, a 55-year-old attorney, was arrested back in 2013 on an outstanding drug charge, and subsequently strip searched, revealing she was a biological female, the Miami Herald reported.