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Kentucky County Settles Prisoner Rape Suit for $1.4 Million
Loaded on May 15, 2007
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2007, page 28
Filed under:
Sexual Assault,
Prisoner-Prisoner Assault,
Failure to Protect (General),
Municipal Liability.
Location:
Kentucky.
Grant County, Kentucky, has settled with a prisoner who was brutally raped in the county's jail for $1.4 million. The September 1, 2005, settlement was the largest to date in a series of similar lawsuits against the county.
The victim, Joshua Sester, who had just turned 18 and weighed 125 ...
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