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Outrageous Strip Search of Woman by Male Gaurds [OH]
#7984066 - 02/05/08 07:24 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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This it the most fucked up thing I have ever seen police doing to someone. It is from Canton, OH. Short version is that both male and female officers forcibly strip searched the VICTIM of a crime and it was caught on tape. Link to article and video at the bottom.
CANTON -- Hope Steffey's night began with a call to police for help. It ended with her face down, completely naked and sobbing on a jail cell floor. Steffey says Stark County sheriff's deputies used excessive force and assaulted her during a strip search 15 months ago, according to a federal lawsuit.
Stark County Sheriff Timothy Swanson denies the allegation.
Steffey's attorney says her clothes, including her underwear and bra, were stripped from her body by at least seven male and female sheriff's deputies and jail workers. She lay face down in handcuffs at the time.
"Hope begged and pleaded with her ... assailants to stop," the lawsuit says. "There was no forcible penetration but Hope felt as if she was being raped."
The sheriff denies this was a strip search.
The sheriff's policy requires officers conducting any strip search to be of the same sex.
Her attorney, David Malik, said Steffey, 41, was never asked to voluntarily remove her clothes. In an e-mail, Swanson said Steffey was asked to remove her clothes but refused. He said deputies took them off for her own safety.
Swanson declined to comment further, saying the details would come out in court.
Channel 3 News obtained exclusive video of Steffey's night in the Stark County jail cell. You can click the link at the bottom of the page to view it. A warning: it is difficult to watch.
Steffey declined to be interviewed for this story. But her husband, a high school educator, talked to Channel 3's Tom Meyer.
Greg Steffey said his wife is still traumatized. But the couple wants the story told to prevent it from happening to someone else.
"This could be your wife or anyone's wife," Greg Steffey said.
He said he still can't believe this happened to Hope, a 125-pound woman who, earlier that night, turned to police for help.
"You don't treat people like this," Greg Steffey said. "I don't think murderers are treated like this much less people charged with disorderly conduct."
Steffey's ordeal with the Stark County Sheriff's deputies began after her cousin called police for help.
In a 9-1-1 call, her cousin said Steffey had been assaulted by another cousin.
When a Stark County deputy arrived, he asked for Steffey's driver's license. She accidentally turned over her dead sister's license, which she said she keeps in her wallet as a memento, the lawsuit says.
The deputy refused to give the license back and told Steffey to "shut up about your dead sister," according to her attorney.
The sheriff denied that in a written response to the lawsuit.
Eventually, Steffey was arrested and taken to the Stark County Jail. She was later charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.
After her clothes were removed, she was locked in a cell. To stay warm, she wrapped herself in toilet paper. She remained in the cell for six hours.
During that time, she was not allowed to use a phone or seek medical attention for injuries she suffered that night, including a cracked tooth, bulging disc and bruises, the lawsuit says.
The sheriff denies that.
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Re: Outrageous Strip Search of Woman by Male Gaurds [OH] [Re: Smushroom]
#7984163 - 02/05/08 07:48 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Dirty fucking pigs.
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Re: Outrageous Strip Search of Woman by Male Gaurds [OH] [Re: Skeeblix]
#7984220 - 02/05/08 08:01 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Quote:
Skeeblix said: Dirty fucking pigs.
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Re: Outrageous Strip Search of Woman by Male Gaurds [OH] [Re: Skeeblix]
#7984223 - 02/05/08 08:01 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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That video is so hard to watch.
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Re: Outrageous Strip Search of Woman by Male Gaurds [OH] [Re: Syntaxerror]
#7984276 - 02/05/08 08:12 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Did anyone else notice the chick in the video is brunette and the lady in the picture is blonde?
assuming that's due to a dye job or camera differences, this is a fucked up story. I wonder when common people will stop trusting police entirely. When they start assailing and assaulting the VICTIMS that might be the wake up call America so desperately needs.
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Re: Outrageous Strip Search of Woman by Male Gaurds [OH] [Re: ApJunkie]
#7984348 - 02/05/08 08:23 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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If the only reason we maintain a government is so this kind of thing doesn't happen, how much more will it take before we realize that it is our natural right to rebel?
People don't stay afraid of their governments for long. History repeating itself.
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Re: Outrageous Strip Search of Woman by Male Gaurds [OH] [Re: Smushroom]
#7984375 - 02/05/08 08:27 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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The pigs did wrong but that's one crazy beeaattccchhhh!
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Re: Outrageous Strip Search of Woman by Male Gaurds [OH] [Re: Smushroom]
#7984420 - 02/05/08 08:36 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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it's fucked up, but has nothing to do with the scope of this website...
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The submitted news should be related to the scope of this website. (mushrooms, psychedelics, drugs in general, war on drugs, etc....)
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Re: Outrageous Strip Search of Woman by Male Gaurds [OH] [Re: usg543]
#7984449 - 02/05/08 08:40 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Re: Outrageous Strip Search of Woman by Male Gaurds [OH] [Re: gema]
#7984467 - 02/05/08 08:43 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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police god complex.
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Re: Outrageous Strip Search of Woman by Male Gaurds [OH] [Re: rodfarva]
#7984486 - 02/05/08 08:47 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Excuse me? Nobody cares that it's two different Women?
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Re: Outrageous Strip Search of Woman by Male Gaurds [OH] [Re: ApJunkie]
#7984499 - 02/05/08 08:50 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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fucked up to the max
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Re: Outrageous Strip Search of Woman by Male Gaurds [OH] [Re: rodfarva]
#7984518 - 02/05/08 08:55 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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fuckin piece of shit cops
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Re: Outrageous Strip Search of Woman by Male Gaurds [OH] [Re: xpl0de]
#7984764 - 02/05/08 09:48 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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same woman, different hair...
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Re: Outrageous Strip Search of Woman by Male Gaurds [OH] [Re: jenns_hot]
#7984812 - 02/05/08 09:56 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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........what the fuck
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Re: Outrageous Strip Search of Woman by Male Gaurds [OH] [Re: bloodbrother778]
#7984903 - 02/05/08 10:13 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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thats just wrong...
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Re: Outrageous Strip Search of Woman by Male Gaurds [OH] [Re: nk pakelika]
#7984919 - 02/05/08 10:16 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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The article says 15 months ago so she probably dyed her hair
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Re: Outrageous Strip Search of Woman by Male Gaurds [OH] [Re: learningtofly]
#7984936 - 02/05/08 10:21 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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fuck the police
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Re: Outrageous Strip Search of Woman by Male Gaurds [OH] [Re: SlashOZ]
#7984979 - 02/05/08 10:34 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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fuck jails too, they make you wear prison clothing which is not warm at all and stick you in cold air ventilated rooms, its torture.
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Re: Outrageous Strip Search of Woman by Male Gaurds [OH] [Re: gema]
#7985902 - 02/06/08 09:02 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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gema said: The pigs did wrong but that's one crazy beeaattccchhhh!
Wha??? I don't believe I just read that....
How would you feel when HUGE Male Police officers held you down stripping off your underwear without any warning?
Would you just lay there limp and whistle while they work?
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Re: Outrageous Strip Search of Woman by Male Gaurds [OH] [Re: Smushroom]
#7987055 - 02/06/08 02:42 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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This thread has been closed.
Reason: This news story is outside the scope of this forum. Please refrain from posting news stories of this type in the future. Thank you for your understanding.
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