Police Strip Search Innocent Woman - OHIO - October 2006

Stark County [Canton], Ohio - Hope Steffey's night began with a call to the police for help. It ended up 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, after a complaint by the Federal Government. Stark County Sheriff Timothy Swanson denies the allegation. Steffey attorney says her clothes, including her underwear and bra, were stripped from her body by at least sevenmale and female sheriff deputies and jail workers. She lay face down in handcuffs at the time. "Hope begged and pleaded with her ... assailants to stop," says the complaint. "There was no forcible penetration but Hope felt as if they are raped." The sheriff denies this was a body search. The sheriff's policy to be a strip search to include senior officers 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 their clothes rejected, but. He said they moved from Members for their own safety. Swanson declined to comment further, saying the details would come out in court. Channel 3 News obtained exclusive video of Steffey 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 hard to study. Steffey declined to be interviewed for this story. But her husband, a high school teacher, said Channel 3Tom Meyer. Greg Steffey said his wife is still traumatized. But the couple wants the story to prevent it from happening to someone else. "This could your wife or any woman," Greg Steffey said. He said he still can not always believe this to be the hope of a 125-pound woman happened that earlier that night, turned to the police for help. "They treat people like this," Greg Steffey said. "I do not think that far fewer people are murderers of them charged with misdemeanor treatment." Steffey ordealwith the Stark County Sheriff's deputies began after her cousin called police for help. In a 9-1-1 call had been abused said Steffey's cousin from another cousin were. 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 souvenir, says the complaint. The deputy refused to give the license back and told Steffey to "shut up about your dead sister," said her lawyer. TheSheriff denied that in a written reply to the complaint. Finally, Steffey was arrested and taken to the Stark County Jail. She was later charged with disorderly conduct and resisting state authority. After her clothes were removed, she was locked in a cell. Stay warm, she wrapped herself in toilet paper. She remained in the cell for six hours. During this time she was not allowed to use a phone or get medical attention for injuries she suffered that night, including a cracked tooth, bulgingDisc and bruises, the complaint says. The sheriff denied.



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