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

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

The inmate was so desperate for help that she attempted to write the words on her jail cell wall, in her own blood: “God, please help me.” On her final day in the jail, she was found naked in her cell, crying and mumbling, asking for her mother to hold her, according to a lawsuit she brought Friday.

The inmate, a 38-year-old Cincinnati woman, claims that during her 11 days in the Warren County Jail, at least two corrections officers raped her. On one occasion, they assaulted her with so much force that they “shattered” her shoulder bones.

In the lawsuit filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Cincinnati, the woman sued two corrections officers — one by name, one as a John Doe — along with seven