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Nevilledog

(51,121 posts)
Fri Jul 8, 2022, 01:32 AM Jul 2022

Sheriff's office locks pregnant 14 yo inside the investigations division for 21 hours.

https://www.13wmaz.com/article/news/investigations/could-i-call-my-mama-again-bibb-sheriffs-office-forgets-witness-locks-pregnant-teen-in-interview-room-overnight-2/93-d5d4cd25-9be2-464e-a9ab-64eaf82ea869

MACON, Ga. — It happened March 24.

'It' is what former Bibb Sheriff's Office Sgt. Omar Sanders calls 'failure': when a pregnant 14-year-old girl was left in a locked interview room overnight. Sanders lost his job over the incident.

According to an internal affairs report from the sheriff's office, the young woman was left in interview room 4 for about 21 hours. She did not eat. She did not have access to a bathroom. She had no phone to call home, her lawyer says.

"I don't respect none of this. And I don't deserve none of this," the girl's mother said the next day in an interview with Investigator Brannon Grace.

We're not identifying the girl or her mother because of the girl's age. Her attorney, John Fleming, says nobody checked on her.

"She was yelling out for help. She was knocking on the door," he said.

"I ain't get checked up on. I was talking to the camera thing. I don't know if it was on. I would ask them, 'Could I call my mama again?'" the girl said in her interview with Investigator Grace.

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Sheriff's office locks pregnant 14 yo inside the investigations division for 21 hours. (Original Post) Nevilledog Jul 2022 OP
Systemic rape. Gaugamela Jul 2022 #1
MACON, Ga. -- It happened March 24. elleng Jul 2022 #2
After 21 hours, she threw a chair at the door and tore pieces of wood from it bit by bit to create a Demovictory9 Jul 2022 #3
And they made her walk home? alphafemale Jul 2022 #7
WOW !!! raped then abused more by unprofessional cops uponit7771 Jul 2022 #4
I'm placing money on the fact she is black and the cops were either white or, as NWA said, AZLD4Candidate Jul 2022 #5
showin' out Celerity Jul 2022 #9
Auto correct. Fixed. AZLD4Candidate Jul 2022 #11
woot! woot! Celerity Jul 2022 #12
I would lock up every cop involved DFW Jul 2022 #6
In real life this would be a long list of felonies purr-rat beauty Jul 2022 #8
Maybe they should have arrested the man who raped her obamanut2012 Jul 2022 #10
Child abuse. yardwork Jul 2022 #13
CHILD. CHILD. CHILD. NOT "young woman". CHILD. And where was an adult? niyad Jul 2022 #14

Demovictory9

(32,457 posts)
3. After 21 hours, she threw a chair at the door and tore pieces of wood from it bit by bit to create a
Fri Jul 8, 2022, 01:58 AM
Jul 2022

After 21 hours, she threw a chair at the door and tore pieces of wood from it bit by bit to create a hole. Security camera video shows her walking through the investigations office parking lot around 7 a.m. Then, she walked almost three miles to her aunt's house.

 

alphafemale

(18,497 posts)
7. And they made her walk home?
Fri Jul 8, 2022, 07:50 AM
Jul 2022

They should have made sure a juvenile had safe transport.

This was definitely not a white child.

AZLD4Candidate

(5,698 posts)
5. I'm placing money on the fact she is black and the cops were either white or, as NWA said,
Fri Jul 8, 2022, 04:06 AM
Jul 2022

Last edited Fri Jul 8, 2022, 08:34 AM - Edit history (1)

Black police showin' out for the white cop.

DFW

(54,405 posts)
6. I would lock up every cop involved
Fri Jul 8, 2022, 07:43 AM
Jul 2022

Put each of them in a cell, incommunicado, with no food, water, or toilet for three days, force them to clean and disinfect their cells, and then send them home, newly unemployed.

There can be NO tolerance for this. NONE.

purr-rat beauty

(543 posts)
8. In real life this would be a long list of felonies
Fri Jul 8, 2022, 07:58 AM
Jul 2022

But seeing it was the Police committing the crime they'll get a slap on the wrist

Where's the Pro-Lifers?!?!

niyad

(113,342 posts)
14. CHILD. CHILD. CHILD. NOT "young woman". CHILD. And where was an adult?
Fri Jul 8, 2022, 09:22 AM
Jul 2022

Children are supposed to be accompanied by an adult when questioned by police.

May all involved receive everything they deserve.

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