‘God, please help me’: Inmate claims jailers raped her, refused medicine and left her ‘catatonic’

In a lawsuit filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Cincinnati, a woman sued two corrections officers — one by name, one as a John Doe — along with seven nurses, including the jail’s health services administrator.

The woman was held at the jail in May 2013, after turning herself in on a four-year-old warrant for deception to obtain drugs. The lawsuit alleges the jail’s nurses refused to give the woman her prescribed medicine for her epilepsy, causing her to experience seizures and withdrawal, leaving her debilitated in her jail cell. Incapacitated and unable to defend herself, her jailers allegedly Tased her, took away her clothing, turned off her running water and forced her to drink out of the toilet.

Authors
Samantha Schmidt
Type
News
Standards
None
Facility
Prisons and Jails
Terms
Staff sexual misconduct