Epileptic Woman Writes ‘God Help Me’ in Her Own Blood As She’s Gang Raped by Officers — Lawsuit

Cincinnati, OH — An Ohio woman has filed a federal lawsuit after she says she was brutally raped at the Warren County, Ohio jail, and claims the jail withheld her seizure medicines as well. The woman, who’ll remain unidentified, accuses at least three men of brutally raping her, forced her to go without clothes, and made her drink from her own cell toilet.

Her attorney Jennifer Branch filed a federal lawsuit, in Cincinnati’s federal court, against several unidentified alleged assailants and nursing staff. Because no charges have yet to be filed, their identities are also confidential.

The woman turned herself in on a 4-year-old warrant for deception to obtain drugs on May 3, 2013. Once in jail, she was denied her epilepsy medication, according to the suit, which left her in a vulnerable state. On May 14, after a horrifying 11-day torture session, the woman was “found naked in her cell, crying and mumbling,” and was sent to a psychiatric hospital, Summit Behavioral Center, the suit says. She was diagnosed with “psychosis induced by the trauma of the sexual assault” at the jail, the suit claims.

“In her cell she’s put on her stomach. Three different officers in uniform are present,” Branch told WCPO on Monday. “She can see parts of them and can hear their voices and she knows what they did to her.”

“They kept her naked in her cell. She was on the floor on top of a garbage bag,” Branch said of the treatment she received. Afterward, the jail sent the woman to the hospital for treatment of her epilepsy. While there, her attorney said semen was found in her urine, “The only way she would have had that (semen presence) was if it happened at the jail.”

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Chief Deputy Barry Riley issued a statement which read in part, “None of the citizens of Warren County should take our silence about the lawsuit filed by one of our former inmates as an indication that there is any truth to her allegations.”

Strange as it may seem, Deputy Riley’s statement implied the accuser is making up the incident. But police departments have a moral obligation to investigate such claims. After all, being in jail is scary enough, why should the general population fear sexual assault while being helplessly caged like animals for drugs?

As WCPO reported, saying she was “tortured,” the 38-year-old woman claims the jailers shattered bones in her shoulder during the rapes, used a stun gun on her more than once, took away her clothing, left her covered in her own blood and feces, shut off water to her cell and forced her to drink from a toilet.

“She was so desperate for help she attempted to write on the cell wall, in her own blood, ‘God, please help me,’” according to the federal lawsuit.

If the semen has been preserved, it won’t take long for investigators, should they choose to investigate one of their own, to arrive at a conclusion about to whom the semen belongs. But from the way the statement reads, there may be little to no investigating of the woman’s incomprehensible and shocking claims.

The lawsuit also alleges the jail disposed of the woman’s plastic mattress that would have contained DNA and other forensic evidence.

Claims involving alleged rapes should be taken very seriously by law enforcement. If an inmate comes forward with such claims, they must be taken seriously and investigated thoroughly. For the meanwhile, the criminal complaint will be presented to the suspected guards involved in the alleged incident. They’ll have 30 days to respond.

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As The Free Thought Project has faithfully reported, when a citizen is captured, kidnapped, and caged for drugs there are no longer any family and friends to protect them. They’re at the mercy of those who are being paid to maintain law and order in the jail. But as we’ve reported, several people have endured a lot of trauma at the hands of police officials.

One man was forcefully penetrated by an officer who was doing a cavity search for drugs. And another inmate was brutally killed by corrections officers. The truth is the badge abuse knows no bounds. Often times, as TFTP has reported, the victims are mentally ill patients and are often deprived of their medicines while in police custody — just like this case illustrates.

Innocent Rape Victim Thrown in Jail for a Month to Make Sure She’d Testify Against Attacker

Houston, TX — A Houston woman has been traumatized by the District Attorney’s office, following her report of being raped by a serial rapist. According to Click2Houston, “Jenny, who is in her 20s, was the star witness in the rape trial of Keith Hendricks after he violently raped and choked her. Hendricks was eventually sentenced to two life sentences for raping women.”

But during the trial, Jenny broke down while testifying against Hendricks. Fearing that her star witness would not return to testify, prosecutors decided Jenny, who suffers from bipolar disorder, would need to go to the hospital, and then to jail. Yes, that’s right. After a brief stay at St. Joseph’s Medical Center, Jenny was “handcuffed, put in the back of a patrol car and taken to jail,” according to her attorney Sean Buckley. Adding insult to injury, apparently, not only was the witness raped, forced to testify in front of others about her

Adding insult to injury, apparently, not only was the witness raped, forced to testify in front of others about her traum,a but then she was rewarded by being forced to spend nearly a month in jail. A month!

The highly unusual move occurred when prosecutors presented the trial judge with a “witness bond.” The judge, Stacey W. Bond, signed the order but cannot comment on the case because the rapist is appealing his conviction. So to paint the picture, at least for around 30 days, both the victim and the perpetrator were locked behind bars. This miscarriage of justice just re-victimized the victim and led to a historic shake-up in the district attorney’s office.

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Kim Ogg, a former prosecutor, used Jenny’s case to highlight one of the many injustices she perceived to be taking place in Houston. Ogg, who successfully ran against the DA (Devon Anderson) whose office put Jenny in jail, used Jenny’s story to get elected. At the time of the jailing of the rape victim, Ogg was highly critical of Anderson’s office. She told reporters, “Putting a witness in jail on a material witness bond, is highly irregular and reserved for the worst of the worst witnesses, maybe gang cases.

“They can be protected by placing them in a hotel, they can be placed with family, you can keep in contact,” she said saying there must have been another way to get Jenny the medical help she needed and still ensure her testimony.

Incredulously, the DA, Devon Anderson, defended her office’s actions in a videotaped response to the criticism. “I have carefully reviewed the case and fully support our prosecutor’s actions. It bears repeating this was an extraordinarily difficult and unusual situation. There were no apparent alternatives that would ensure both the victim’s safety and her appearance at trial.” Anderson reportedly would not speak with reporters who wished to grill her on the matter.

Ogg went on to defeat Anderson during the election for District Attorney, and saying she’s shaking things up may be an understatement. In a related story that The Free Thought Project brought you earlier this month, on election night, Ogg stated Houston would no longer be taking marijuana users to jail. 

Off said she never felt comfortable locking up potheads with murderers and would no longer do so. And turning her attention to Jenny’s case, Ogg has since fired 37 prosecutors at the Harris County District Attorney’s office, including the prosecutor who had Jenny jailed. “I think this case, more than anything else, became the litmus test for the public about what type of justice system they wanted,” Ogg told reporters.

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Buckley and Jenny are now suing the city. The attorney told reporters that neither her medical records nor her medicines came with her after she left the psychiatric unit and was presented to the jail. She stated the medical staff at the jail didn’t know that she was actually a witness and not a criminal.

In at least one of the jail’s medical records, Jenny was listed as a sex offender. “So those conversations are noted and mentioned in the medical records, and the context of that is the medical staff thought she was disoriented,” Buckley said.

“I have great concern that a human being was handled like a piece of evidence…It has caused me great concern a year later,” Ogg said adding, “We are still not clear on who is responsible for which actions.”

Ogg, the new district attorney, has promised to open another investigation into Jenny’s treatment at the hands of the prosecution and the DA’s office. Ogg says she wants to know what led to Jenny being held on a witness bond in the first place and what precisely was communicated to the jail when she was transported there. Jenny’s case, as horrendous as it appears to be, has led to calls for reform.

Texas Senator John Whitmire filed a bill that would require a hearing in open court before a witness bond is granted. Also, if one is granted, an independent attorney would have to be appointed to watch over the person. “This lady was stuck in the Harris County jail, lost in the shuffle and had no legal representation to go back to court and point out how difficult her circumstances were,” Whitmire said.

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As The Free Thought Project has routinely reported, the poor, the homeless, the mentally ill, and minorities are often the victims of an out of control, illogical, and unfair justice system. We’ve reported to you how a homeless man was beaten and sent to jail for a year, simply for not answering a police officer’s question. We routinely bring you stories of handicapped individuals being mistreated by the justice system.

Now, it seems, we have yet another case where a woman who’d been violently raped, was treated with the same level of care as her attacker, and for a month was locked behind bars with other hardened criminals. There’s no telling if Jenny will ever be able to get over her trauma. Jenny, if you’re out there, please get in touch with The Free Thought Project and let us know that you’re doing better. We hope you sue the hell out of their asses and never have to worry about where you’ll sleep again.