Woman arrested for claiming police sexually assaulted her in court during drug search

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http://abovethelaw.com/2013/06/horr...ly-court-judge-literally-looks-the-other-way/

A disturbing video is making its way around social media today. It’s a six-minute family court video from August 2011 of a woman who complains that a marshal sexually assaulted her in a back room. The woman becomes increasingly agitated as the marshal, who is in the courtroom, then arrests her for “making false allegations about a police officer,” all while the magistrate plays with the woman’s child, at least until the child begs the arresting officer to not take her momma away.

It’s really tough to watch. Even I became emotional while watching the clip. And the marshal has since been dismissed. Most of the internet outrage is focused on the cop. Me, I can honestly say that after watching this I wish nothing but the absolute worst for Clark County Hearings Master Patricia Doninger. I think I’d rather see Edith Jones on the Supreme freaking Court than have this person “preside” over a game of Family Feud, much less be within shouting distance of a family court…


The video is safe for work, but again feels more like a snuff film than a courtroom video. You’re watching a helpless person get violated by the system in real time:



KLAS-TV, which broke the story, describes what happened. A woman named Monica Contreras was in court with her daughter trying to vacate a temporary restraining order her ex-husband had sought to obtain. He didn’t show, and the order was denied, but here’s what happened next:

According to internal court documents, as Contreras was leaving, family court marshal Ron Fox ordered her into a waiting room for an unexplained drug search.

Contreras said Fox touched her buttocks, breast, and ordered her to lift up her shirt. A later internal investigation by Clark County courts validated her claims. Contreras went back into the same courtroom and told hearing master Patricia Donninger that her requests to have a female marshal handle the search were ignored.

cont. http://abovethelaw.com/2013/06/horr...ly-court-judge-literally-looks-the-other-way/

 

[Lazaraus45]

They should all be held culpable IMO, also, has this gone no further then dismissal?

 

[25I_am_so_wonderfu]

Sickening. I truly hope she presses charges against the marshalls office.

 

[Deinonychus]

Fucking made me feel physically ill. I don't have word, it's appalling beyond any communicative method.

I am strongly against vigilantism, or doing physical harm to another at all in any form. But being human and thus a mass of contradictions, I have to say that if I ever had the chance, that dude or any other man who beats or otherwise abuses women would wish he had never been born. My reaction to men who perpetrate violence or abuse against women simply would surpass my rational ability to restrain myself from doing violence myself.

 

[slimvictor]

^ I hear you. I felt pretty similar. Just disgusting.

 

[Captain.Heroin]

Wow, this is really an outrage.

I'd be flattered TBPH because I have no shame and wouldn't bring drugs into a court house (unless they were legal prescriptions), but holy fuck, still so wrong on so many levels.

I hope she sues.

 

['medicine cabinet']

Yea she should contact the aclu, get a lawyer and file charges. And since when has a male officer been allowed to do a search of a female in a backroom in a court house? Never ever heard of that shit happening legally. Even traffic stops if a female needs to be physicaly searched they will wait til a female officer can do it. So fucked up. These are the ppl that are supposed to be held to a higher standard. The judge should be disbarred and the marshall locked up. Every time i read shit like this it makes me cringe and hate the justice system and the law that much more.

 

[DJRolling]

Fucking made me feel physically ill. I don't have word, it's appalling beyond any communicative method.

I am strongly against vigilantism, or doing physical harm to another at all in any form. But being human and thus a mass of contradictions, I have to say that if I ever had the chance, that dude or any other man who beats or otherwise abuses women would wish he had never been born. My reaction to men who perpetrate violence or abuse against women simply would surpass my rational ability to restrain myself from doing violence myself.

you got that right. people like this really do make me goddamned sick.