Stripping Woman Naked: Police & Government Deny Charges

Stripping of Woman Naked - male cops gang up and essentially rape women in their custody. They forcefully pin down handcuffed females and help strip women until all their clothes are off, as the victims beg, scream, and fight for their life. The male police officers watch and video tape their abuse of the fully nude girls, and then leave the tortured girls naked for up to six hours in the cells of Sheriff Swanson's Stark County jail in Ohio, USA.

The woman in the video is Hope Steffey.

Imagine if it was you, your wife, your daughter, or your mother getting forcefully stripped after calling the police for help!

It has now been discovered that at least 128 women between 1999 and 2007 were strip-searched, forced to remove their clothing or placed on suicide watch or homicide watch or "naked detention" at Sheriff Swanson's jail.
http://www.wkyc.com/news/local/news_article.aspx?storyid=109037

Deputies responsible in video: Kristin Fenstemaker, Laura Rodgers, Tony Gayles, Richard T. Gurlea Jr., Andrea Mays and Brian Michaels.

These deputy criminals are now suing the WKYC news station that stood up and exposed their crimes and torture to the public.
http://www.cantonrep.com/archive/x309570834/Deputies-sue-TV-station-over-repo...


Support Hope Steffey and demand justice:

Governor Strickland
(614) 466-3555, Fax: (614) 466-9354
http://www.governor.ohio.gov/Contact/tabid/153/Default.aspx

Senator Voinovich
(800) 205-6446, Fax: (216) 522-7097
http://voinovich.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.ContactForm

Senator Brown
(202) 224-2315, Fax: (202) 228-6321
http://brown.senate.gov/contact/

Congressman Boccieri
(330) 489-4414, Fax: (330) 489-4448
http://boccieri.house.gov/contact/index.shtml

U.S. Attorney General Holder, (202) 353-1555
http://www.usdoj.gov/contact-us.html

Ohio Attorney General Cordray, (877) 244-6446
http://www.ag4ohio.gov/Public/details.aspx?s=222

Stark County Sheriff, (330) 430-3800, strkshrf@raex.com
http://www.sheriff.co.stark.oh.us

Sheriff Timothy A. Swanson denies all charges and asked fellow government employee, Attorney General Marc Dann, to investigate, however, later Dann was forced to resign after an unrelated sex scandal and numerous sexual harassment claims against him. Special prosecutors then failed to even interview the victim before presenting the case to a grand jury. How many cases are investigated without interviewing the victim?

So far five women have come forward with similar cases of abuse at this Stark County jail, including one that was a victim of a sexual assault while employed at an Ohio medium security prison.

The woman in the video, Hope Steffey, tried to hold Sheriff Swenson, who happened to get elected President of the Sheriff's Association in Ohio for 2008, and his fellow police officers responsible for their actions, but the sheriff denies all allegations and the government was able to convince a grand jury to drop all criminal charges against them without even interviewing the victim. Marc Dann, the Attorney General of Ohio, who was supposed to handle the investigation, recently resigned after being caught in a sex scandal.

"The special prosecutors in the Hope Steffey case said Thursday that there was no strip search and no criminal wrongdoing by the Stark County sheriff's deputies."

Hope Steffey originally had the police called for help after being assaulted. When police saw the ID of Steffey's dead sister, which Steffey keeps with her in remembrance, they confiscated it and refused to return it. When Steffey became upset, the police threw her to the ground, chipped her tooth, and arrested her for "disorderly conduct," and resisting arrest. Suspiciously, the arresting officer had turned off his dash camera, which is supposed to be on. The police have also 'lost' the video or claimed that the hand-held video camera that you can see filming in the other Youtube video was not working - yet you can clearly see the camera working in the security camera footage.

After the police got Hope to jail, one of the questions they asked her is if she had ever been suicidal. When Hope replied with, "now or ever," the police immediately decided she was a suicide threat and that she needed to have all her clothes stripped off, including her underwear, panties and bra, exposing her bare naked ass, breasts, and vagina in front of the male officers while they forcefully grabbed her naked body and pinned her down. After they were done with her, they left her naked for six hours.

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[beckyholt]

If a black guy did this stuff to a white woman under any other circumstances he would be in prison with his friend Bubba. Why was it necessary for her to take her clothes off at all? She was under arrest for shouting and causing a disturbance why would that require the removal of her clothes? Who would want to do that job except members of the TSA Nazi police squads and them? Why is it necessary to have men involved that at least should be against policy. Coming to an airport near you soon v TSA

[Zemo999]

Stark County Sheriff's Office 330-430-3800 Stark County Jail Vivianne Whalen Duffrin Director of Human Resources 330-430-3867 extension # 3867 Stark County Prosecutor John D. Ferrero (330) 451-7897 Office of the Attorney General (614) 466-4320 Special Prosecutions Ohio Attorney General Paul Scarsella 614-644-0729 Correctional Healthcare Group Jonathan Stump 330-454-6766 Extension # 3824

[sammerlin1]

@turnip40 : "the police did nothing wrong...she is a lying drig addict. all she had to do was coopperate." You really need to do some research. These sick perverted Depuites did not give Mrs. Steffey a chance to cooperate, these monsters did not even tell Mrs. Steffey what they were going to do to her naked body. I am not surprised, part of a sexual sadists arousal, is tortuing and terrifying their victims. They enjoyed her screams of sexual molestion. I guess thats why they were all laughing!!

[turnip40]

@sammerlin1 the police did nothing wrong... she is a lying drug addict. all she had to do was coopperate.

[HoChiMinh30abril1975]

My deepest sympathy goes to Mrs. Steffey and her husband. I'm sure this has been a nightmare for them. I sincerely hope they can survive the trauma of what these animals did to her. We need more people like Maurice Clemmons and Lovelle Mixon.

[sammerlin1]

@TheRobin3212 :"It isn't a matter of right and wrong.It's a matter of what the police "percieve" as a threat and the best way to protect themselves from harm." So what you are stating, is that these sexually sadsitic predators had every right to sexually molest and torture a naked woman? Why do you think this jail paid Mrs. Steffey 6 figures? Please use the names of these monsters if you insist on defending them. Perhaps, if you were an attorney you could have defended Ted Bundy? VICTIMS=THREAT?

[sammerlin1]

@TheRobin3212 : "No. In fact I cannot reference another vidoe showing deputies stripping anyone else." So what you are stating that this sexual molestation by these sexually sadistic deputies is not standard operating procedure? These sick predators made the video because Sheriff Swanson encourages his employees to view their atricocties. I guess Sheriff Swanson considers these vidoe's a perk for his sick deputies?

"Imagine what law enforcement was like before the camcorder"NYPD JUSTIN VOLPE

[MrZemoXXX]

@TheRobin3212 Perceive as a threat? A handcuffed woman? Too much wine? I don't get it, the only ones saying she was drunk was the arresting cop & the ones that assaulted her. Witnesses at the scene say she wasn't, AND the next shift at the jail said they could detect no effects or even SMELL of alcohol on her. She went to a hospital to get medical help after she was released & was diagnosed with a concussion. (see symptoms)

Bottom line, the cops LIED, and then tried to cover it up

[TheRobin3212]

@MrZemoXXX It isn't a matter of right and wrong. It's a matter of what the police "perceive" as a threat, and the best way to protect themselves from harm. All I can say is, as long as your wife or daughter does not have too many glasses of wine for lunch, you have nothing to worry about.

[TheRobin3212]

@sammerlin1 No. In fact I cannot reference another video showing deputies stripping anyone else. That is the major problem with this case. They were stupid enough to video tape it. Imagine what law enforcement was like before the camcorder.

[MrZemoXXX]

@TheRobin3212 So I guess the NATIONAL TV network, the retired police trainer, & the legal analyst that condemned this were ALL wrong huh?

To be LEGAL a doc has to order this, NO DOC EVER ORDERED THIS! Just ask them for proof they have NONE.

Plus the investigation found that she DENIED being suicidal THREE TIMES.

And on top of that the cops were caught in lie after lie...and THEN we have all the "missing" video...these cops are SCUM!! Wise up!

[LocalSuperCenter]

None compliant? Ill remember that if I ever want to take any woman's cloths off by force...even law enforcement should not be allowed to rape by legal means,..maybe if you treated people with respect they would not act like wild animals when confronted by law enforcement...