Looks like a 5th woman is coming forward with her story. She said she fears reprisals for speaking out.
I can see why, it seems that everyone in that county is part of the problem, at least all the ones I have talked to.

http://www.wkyc.com/news/news_articl...?storyid=88666

And now surprise, the State Attorney General, who is supposed to be investigating this incident, is himself being investigated.

How would he be able to investigate the Steffy case, when he himself seems to be part of the problem????

They called for his resignation, but he refused, so now they are going the impeachment route.

CUT&PASTE:
Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann has refused to step down as Ohio's Attorney General, despite pleas that he do so or face impeachment.

Early Monday evening, Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland said top state Democratic officials will immediately begin drafting an impeachment resolution against Dann.

http://www.wkyc.com/news/news_articl...?storyid=88776

It looks as though the whole county needs to be cleaned out, from top to bottom.

Heres an updated link to ALL the Steffy videos:

http://search.wkyc.com/sp?aff=100&keywords=hope+steffey&submit=Go

.

All of the officials are saying this is their 'protocol' for handling suicidal people.
Unfortunately it is ILLEGAL! There have been PLENTY of laws found to be unconstitutional, just as their 'protocol' is.

The sheriff is now trying to say they don't make the call on who is "suicidal". That a outside contractor is. And the contractor, Correctional HealthCare Group, is spewing the same line, that it is their 'protocol'. Except that they don't seem to consider that the rules are illegal or that their people work closely with the police and could be, and probably are, in collusion with them.
.
And another problem is that they never followed their own rules.
.
I'm just hoping that they can't get out of jail time by saying that they were just following the rules.
.
Just the stuff we know FOR SURE should be enough to get these sadists jail time.

You don’t leave a victim without medical care.

You don’t have males on females, let alone EIGHT people to strip a handcuffed woman.(4 men & 4women)

You don’t leave them naked, without at least a paper covering.

You don’t take them to be booked naked.

And as of May5th the sheriff has still NOT released ALL the Steffy video.

I don't see a professional psychiatrist traumatizing a person they think might be suicidal by forceably stripping them naked with no explanation or dialog with them.

This has nothing to do with them thinking she was suicidal, it was almost CERTAINLY done to humiliate, embarrass, degrade and punish Hope Steffy.

And then there is all the DISPUTED stuff that we have.

That she was attacked by the deputy without just cause.(so he HAS to come up with a charge on her to cover his abuse)
That he pulled on her arm to get her ‘to react’ and then made it seem as if she was resisting.
Deputy and jailers claim that she was in mood swings, but NO VIDEO shows this.
That the deputy left her in the car, while he talked to someone at the jail.(This alone raises a red flag for me!!)
That she was told she could go home after questions.
That she was NEVER asked to remove her cloths.
That the officers attacked her without warning.
That her tooth & back were injured in the multiple attacks by police.

And then we have all the ‘missing’ video for icing on the cake……

This gets to stink more & more.

I just hope people get involved in this. How much can people see, before they react, and say enough is enough?

quote:

---

Anything new on this situation? Have there been any further investigations or any actions taken?

---

quote:

---

Anything new on this situation? Have there been any further investigations or any actions taken?

---

Cop testified that she disrespected him.

Cop testified that he "pushed her against his car". Witnesses say he flew into a rage and slammed her on the car. Steffy has a cracked tooth, which version seems more likely?

Cop testified that she 'resisted' arrest. Witnesses say he had her arm behind her and she was just trying to save her arm.

Cop testifies in court that he then grabbed her right arm and tripped her and swung her to the ground.
Witnesses say he body slammed her hard enough to cause her nose to bleed.

The cop had a body mic & remote for his video camera.

He testifies twice that he's out in the "middle of nowhere".
Then he says Steffy had an outburst.
Then he says she kept it up.
Then he says she 'poked' him.
Then he decides to make an arrest.
Then he testifies that he calls for backup in case people "don't like the way he is handling things".

But he NEVER turns on the camera. After he assaulted Hope and she's mad and cussing him, THEN he decides to turn it on.

THIS is what the jury sees.

How do you crack someone's tooth by pushing them against a car?

How do you have someone bleeding from their nose and give them a bulged disk in their back by swinging them down to the ground?

He says that he used all this force, because she was "resisting arrest".

Later in the trial he admits that Steffy slipped a hand out of her cuffs, but she TELLS him about it and never tries to escape! (Or resist without her arm being in a arm bar.)

Steffy also testified that her ears were ripped open by the police, when they removed her earrings.

Does this sound like people that are trying to "save your life"? Or that even care about what happens to you?

Didn't hear that on the news either huh?

The more you look at this case, the worse it gets!
And the grand jury found NO criminal actions by police!?!?!??! What a joke!!

I have to thank you very much for posting all this information and these links regarding the Hope Steffy case. I'm guessing you are like me and cannot get the video images of what happened to her out of your mind. I cannot believe something like that happened in the United States. I still simply cannot believe it and I want all of those officers and especially Swanson held accountable.

Please continue to release information about all of this. There is literally no other way to get current information. Or is there? Where did you see the court transcript? Is that out there? Could you post that link, I remain deeply concerned about this incedent. Every time I look into I just get upset all over again.

Well... I won't rant now but just know that you have a fan on this one. Also let me know if there's anything that I can do.

AR

quote:

---

Dear John S.,

I have to thank you very much for posting all this information and these links regarding the Hope Steffy case. I'm guessing you are like me and cannot get the video images of what happened to her out of your mind. I cannot believe something like that happened in the United States. I still simply cannot believe it and I want all of those officers and especially Swanson held accountable.

Please continue to release information about all of this. There is literally no other way to get current information. Or is there? Where did you see the court transcript? Is that out there? Could you post that link, I remain deeply concerned about this incedent. Every time I look into I just get upset all over again.

Well... I won't rant now but just know that you have a fan on this one. Also let me know if there's anything that I can do.

AR

---

I had contacted the sheriffs dept at the start of May and asked if that video would ever be released.
They said then, that it would be given to Steffeys lawyers. So they were NOT denying its existence THEN.
Maybe not everyone knew that its existence was supposed to be denied….OOPS!

Here’s just a couple things from the trial transcript.

In the CantonRep paper they wrote this:
QUOTE "When she pulled out her sister's ID, Gurlea turned his attention to Zorger, but Steffey interrupted them. That's when Gurlea arrested her for disorderly conduct, according to his report."

This is NOT what was said at trial.

On page 123 & 129 of the trial transcript Gurlea claims that Steffey "poked him in the chest" and THAT’S when he decided to make an arrest.
But the "poke" is disputed by witnesses.

Then Gurlea claims another reason to arrest Steffey was that he was afraid that the yelling would generate more calls to the sheriff's dept.
But at trial, (page 130), he says he's "out in the middle of nowhere". He AGAIN admits being "out in the middle of nowhere" in cross examination and states that the houses are hundred of yards apart and he never saw anyone come out of their house. (page 135).

Conflicting testimony?!?!? Yeah folks, we have plenty.

Then at the top of page 138, when asked if he knew Steffey had been “smacked against the car and that she fell to the ground” Gurlea says he was told by a witness, and I quote: "And when they went out, they found....they discovered this altercation occurring."
(A quick change from what he WAS going to say, and I suspect that he was going to say “they found, her laying on the ground unconscious”, but that would mean admitting that he KNEW she was indeed knocked unconscious and in need of medical attention.)
Steffey's lawyer asks straight-out if he knew she had been knocked out.
He replied "I don't know for a fact that she lost consciousness that night. This is the first I've heard about it."

Him & his backup “investigated” this and he hadn’t heard about her condition until this trial?!?!!?
See? Nothing the cops say makes sense, its all BS and lies.

The FBI is looking into it, but I'm not holding out for anything different.

Perhaps some locals can simply start training video cameras on these monsters every time they step into public. That will let them know that we will not tolerate any more of this abuse.

quote:

---

Perhaps as long as we pay attention to this case at least the abuse over there will slow down or stop.

Perhaps some locals can simply start training video cameras on these monsters every time they step into public. That will let them know that we will not tolerate any more of this abuse.

---

Ok heres a video you won't see on the news either. This is some of what I got from the BCI "investigation" that the state had.

Heres the cops taking Steffey to the cell to strip her naked.

The quality of the video is pretty bad. It will seem to 'skip' frames for quite a while in some places, but then take a bunch in a row at other times. Why it does this, I don't know.
All the cameras at the sheriff's dept seem to be in bad shape and "malfunction" right at critical moments.

I had to cut this video in half, it was 20 minutes long, from the time they took her in to the time they left the hall in front of her cell. So I cut off the front of it when they took her in.
Heres a link to the whole thing that should be good for a while:
http://rapidshare.com/files/23240009...ction_Done.wmv

WHY does it take 20 minutes outside the hall to show a "suicide prevention" that only took 4 min?

The building camera, seems to skip a lot of frames, so you'd think it would be a shorter video.

But as you can see after they have closed up the cell after assaulting her, they all stand around and have a good laugh, so this will add some more time to the video.

As you can see from the video the big dufass in the white shirt, he stays at the door to the cell looking in all the time Steffey was being assaulted, and then he stays back around her cell afterwards, looking in....GEE, I wonder WHY?
Then afterwards he's joined by another officer who didn't get a chance to help strip Steffey and he starts walking down to have a look too.

WHY DON'T THEY JUST SELL TICKETS?!?!?!?

BUT THEN the camera seems to malfunction, and the next thing you see is a empty hall.
WOW, .....MORE "missing" video from Stark County Sheriff's Dept.

Office of the Ohio Attorney General
(614) 466-4320

Stark County Sheriff's Office
(330)/430-3800

Correctional Healthcare Group
Jonathan Stump
330-454-6766
====
Pictures of all the cops smiling after they have assaulted Hope Steffey outside her cell.
They seem really amused at her screams and begging them to stop.

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y39...BigLaugh-1.jpg
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y39...BigLaugh22.jpg
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y39...BigLaugh33.jpg

And heres a picture of a cop on the way to strip Steffey, he's doing a "tagoff" to one of the other officers, while it looks as though he is following behind the nurse Coren Lennon.

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y39...9/Steffey4.jpg

====
Heres a news article that mentions Stark County Jail:

http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090511/NEWS16/905110319

In 2007, the last year data was available, the Lucas County Corrections Center housed 26,597 adult inmates and experienced five serious suicide attempts, one inmate escape, 12 inmate-on-inmate assaults, and six inmate-on-staff assaults.

That same year, the numbers were much lower in the Montgomery County jail in Dayton, where 38,750 inmates were housed and there were no suicide attempts or assaults.

Much higher numbers were reported from the Stark County jail in Canton, where 11,761 inmates were housed and where there were 14 serious suicide attempts and 89 inmate-on-inmate assaults.
====
Looks like Stark County personnel could use some more training, and a new Sheriff.

But an appeal of that decision by the county and Sheriff Timothy Swanson means Valentina Dyshko’s case won’t go to trial next week as scheduled.

Dyshko, of Lake Township, filed her lawsuit last year.

In court papers, her attorneys say the jail employees violated Dyshko’s constitutional rights by communicating with her through an unqualified interpreter, and that the sheriff’s office has no policy on how to handle detainees or inmates who don’t speak English, which is contrary to national standards.

Further, Dyshko’s lawsuit says she missed three doses of medication for a serious blood disorder while in the jail, and that the ordeal caused her severe emotional distress and led to her being hospitalized.

The county argues that Dyshko’s rights weren’t violated and that the jail staff acted reasonably.

Neither David Malik, an attorney for Dyshko, nor James Climer, an attorney for the county and Swanson, would comment on the ruling.

The appeal to the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals will take months to complete.

JAILED FOR A MISDEMEANOR

On March 10, 2006, Dyshko turned herself in on a misdemeanor warrant issued by Stark County Family Court. The charge, related to the home-schooling of her children, later was dismissed.

She speaks little to no English and sheriff’s deputies were unable to communicate with her. Unable to get a translator from a local Ukrainian church, the jail staff enlisted the help of a woman who is the mother-in-law of a corrections officer, according to court papers.

The interpreter spoke to Dyshko over the phone and asked her about her health and whether she was suicidal, and reported that Dyshko wanted to kill herself.

Dyshko was placed on suicide precautions. She voluntarily removed her clothing and was given a quilted gown to wear, which she maintains didn’t stay fastened.

She spent the weekend in jail, but was allowed to make phone calls to relatives and the Ukrainian Embassy, according to court papers.

COUNTY SEEKS DISMISSAL

The county asked U.S. District Court Judge John R. Adams to dismiss the case, saying Dyshko’s constitutional rights were not violated.

Procedures exist for communicating with Spanish-speaking inmates, but Dyshko was the first Ukrainian-speaking inmate encountered by the jail, and there was no reason to believe the interpretation was incorrect, the county argued.

In his ruling, Adams said a jury could reasonably conclude that Dyshko’s rights were violated and should hear the case.

He noted that, according to a translation of Dyshko’s comments at the jail by a different interpreter hired by the county for this case, Dyshko actually said, “Why would I want to die? I want to go to my kids.”

“A reasonable jury could conclude that this entire circumstance could have been avoided if a policy existed within the jail for attempting to obtain foreign language interpreters when the need arose,” Adams wrote.

Referring to the sheriff’s deposition, the judge took aim at what he called Swanson’s “declaration that the occasional foreign-language speaker resembles a space alien whose existence in Stark County does not require his attention or the promulgation of a policy.”

Dyshko’s attorneys also represent Hope Steffey, a Salem woman who is suing the jail over its use of suicide precautions. That case is pending before another judge in federal court.

http://www.cantonrep.com/crime/x726828320/Ukrainian-woman-should-get-day-in-court-over-botched-translation-at-jail

This department angers me so much!

A nice Saturday Night Live skit might be several Stark County Sheriff's officers standing around and a woman comes in and says, "Officers, the bank across the street is being robbed!"

One of the officers says, "Hey boys, did it sound to you like that lady says she feels suicidal?"

You get the idea. There was no faulty translation. Somehow a dysfunctional predilection to stripping women has evolved in the Stark County Sheriff's office.

John thanks for carrying the torch.

Some of the photobucket link don't work for me:

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y39...BigLaugh-1.jpg
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y39...BigLaugh22.jpg
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y39...BigLaugh33.jpg

quote:

---

I don't remember that the Sheriff's department made any claim about there having been some "bad translation."

Some of the photobucket link don't work for me:

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y39...BigLaugh-1.jpg
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y39...BigLaugh22.jpg
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y39...BigLaugh33.jpg

---

We have to make sure never to get pulled over by these people in Stark County or they will surely be getting out their batons to play a little game of how deep will it go.

Thanks for following this.

Is there any recent word from Hope's lawyers regarding any settlement? Has all that already happened?

quote:

---

Thanks for posting those. Grainy yes but I can see the smiles too.

We have to make sure never to get pulled over by these people in Stark County or they will surely be getting out their batons to play a little game of how deep will it go.

Thanks for following this.

Is there any recent word from Hope's lawyers regarding any settlement? Has all that already happened?

---