Raped Jacksonville jail worker files intent to sue

Raped Jacksonville jail worker files intent to sue

A correctional officer raped at knifepoint by an inmate at the Duval County jail notified the Sheriff’s Office this morning that she intends to sue the department for failing to follow its own policies procedures designed to protect her.

The woman, who isn’t being named because she is a sex-crime victim, said the Sheriff’s Office relaxed security precautions on Jonathan Tave, the inmate who raped her in the jail law library. Tave, 26, has since pleaded guilty to the rape and a murder and was convicted at trial of another murder. He is serving life in prison.

The letter addressed to Sheriff John Rutherford says the jail also shouldn’t have allowed violent inmates to be alone with female employees and should have monitored areas of the jail like the library that weren’t under surveillance. She said the library door could only be locked and unlocked from the outside, preventing her escape when Tave attacked her with a homemade shank. And she had no alarm to summon help or protect herself, the letter says.

Under state law, the city has six months to respond before a lawsuit can be filed.

Cool, even more lay offs now. I can't wait. This is the reason why I will probably never see a raise again as long as I am with the Department of Corrections. Why can't some offender on probation rape me so I can file a lawsuit? That's it, I'm looking for anything I can around here to get paid. LOL I hope she gets a good settlement.

Moose in Jax wrote:

Cool, even more lay offs now. I can't wait. This is the reason why I will probably never see a raise again as long as I am with the Department of Corrections. Why can't some offender on probation rape me so I can file a lawsuit? That's it, I'm looking for anything I can around here to get paid. LOL I hope she gets a good settlement.

Ummmm if you get raped by an offender in your line of work in DOC .... Well I want a divorice!

Moose in Jax wrote:

Cool, even more lay offs now. I can't wait. This is the reason why I will probably never see a raise again as long as I am with the Department of Corrections. Why can't some offender on probation rape me so I can file a lawsuit? That's it, I'm looking for anything I can around here to get paid. LOL I hope she gets a good settlement.

There is a statutory cap so, no, she won't get a "good" settlement. And no amount of money will repair the damage done to her by that savage.

Not just the people that work there but what about the attorneys and others who work for the attorneys who visit 'clients' there? What about their safety?

BambiEyes126 wrote:

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Ummmm if you get raped by an offender in your line of work in DOC .... Well I want a divorice!

You should have got one long ago.

You don't get far in life when you're bogged down with a b*tch like "Moose".

Let me guess, you're still driving your Kia?

I'll personally give you $500 if "Moose" isn't working at Walmart this time next year.

Ole Sturdivant Slim wrote:

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You should have got one long ago.
You don't get far in life when you're bogged down with a b*tch like "Moose".
Let me guess, you're still driving your Kia?
I'll personally give you $500 if "Moose" isn't working at Walmart this time next year.

LMAO, you're so crazy.

Not a real big fan of the sue to win life’s lotto, but in this case suing the Sheriff’s Office is much founded. If it comes out that the Sheriff’s Office relaxed security precautions for one or more inmates those who made that decision should be fired, period! Sheriff John Rutherford must also be held responsible for one of his employees making such a bonehead call.

Now for the if, If this woman knew that the library was not under surveillance and that she had no alarm to summon help, then her judgment needs to also be questioned. The attack and rape where in no way her fault, yet this crime could have been avoided on so many levels.

I think this suit is not right. If you choose to work among violent criminals then you have rolled-the-dice from day-one. Surely you have no expectation of safety, any more than an officer on-da-beat!

That said -- shouldn't a violent criminal stay locked in a cage and be fed thru a slit once-a-day? Free access to an open-environed library? You must be kidding!

I've suggested this before --- tents & 10x10' barb-wire cages in the Utah desert....

Moose in Jax wrote:

Cool, even more lay offs now. I can't wait. This is the reason why I will probably never see a raise again as long as I am with the Department of Corrections. Why can't some offender on probation rape me so I can file a lawsuit? That's it, I'm looking for anything I can around here to get paid. LOL I hope she gets a good settlement.

Wow...did you really just make light of this situation? You've obviously never been pinned down and sodomized - or forced to perform oral sex and a low-life POS. You'd probably be singing a differnent tune then, and in a much higher voicer.

BambiEyes126 wrote:

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Ummmm if you get raped by an offender in your line of work in DOC .... Well I want a divorice!

I hope you're not really married to that one. God help you if you are.

Mr Logic in Jax wrote:

Not a real big fan of the sue to win life’s lotto, but in this case suing the Sheriff’s Office is much founded. If it comes out that the Sheriff’s Office relaxed security precautions for one or more inmates those who made that decision should be fired, period! Sheriff John Rutherford must also be held responsible for one of his employees making such a bonehead call.
Now for the if, If this woman knew that the library was not under surveillance and that she had no alarm to summon help, then her judgment needs to also be questioned. The attack and rape where in no way her fault, yet this crime could have been avoided on so many levels.

The officer had gone to the higher ups multiple times about the safety and security in that area...her complaints were ignored, and ignored again.

2Spunky wrote:

<quoted text>The officer had gone to the higher ups multiple times about the safety and security in that area...her complaints were ignored, and ignored again.

It is stories like this that really piss me off, how much to you want to bet the higher ups are typical government workers who know they can not be fired and are only yes men or women. Hindsight what it is, maybe she should have filed a safety and security grievance and refused to work under those risk.

If this were not a government own operation it would already be out of business.

Castrate the devil without painkillers and give the lady the money. And while your at it castrate all of the rapist now being held.

Why is there even a debate about what happened? The jail people were wrong and they need to pay the rape victim. Tie the thug down and give the lady a sharp knife and put the show on live TV!

uncle bob wrote:

Why is there even a debate about what happened? The jail people were wrong and they need to pay the rape victim. Tie the thug down and give the lady a sharp knife and put the show on live TV!

It's being debated because some people feel the necessity to get on a public thread and make glib little remarks about how "they should have been raped so they can get some money too." I promise you, if they had been, the money would hardly make up for it.

i bet the rapist got his ass totally busted up.....he would be if i was on my c.o. shift i would rape him with the plunger handle of justice and i would make sure it was splintery and cracked so it would break off inside him........

and moose i bet slim would rape your '' pink skinned ass'' for free(lol) i love it when he calls us pink skinned, like we are newborn gerbils.......

2Spunky wrote:

<quoted text>Wow...did you really just make light of this situation? You've obviously never been pinned down and sodomized - or forced to perform oral sex and a low-life POS. You'd probably be singing a differnent tune then, and in a much higher voicer.

Look, Spunky, I sound the way I do because of how many of these types of stories we all hear about every day. I work in Corrections as well, and used to work at Florida State Prison, home of the worst of the worst. I do sympathise with the victim in this case and my comments were not to make light of her situation but to actually voice my disgust at the way things were handled that allowed this to happen. The jail's security measures need to be seriously re-evaluated and changes definitely need to be made to keep this from ever happening again. I am sorry you got the wrong impression.

tommy salami wrote:

i bet the rapist got his ass totally busted up.....he would be if i was on my c.o. shift i would rape him with the plunger handle of justice and i would make sure it was splintery and cracked so it would break off inside him........
and moose i bet slim would rape your '' pink skinned ass'' for free(lol) i love it when he calls us pink skinned, like we are newborn gerbils.......

He probably would, the sick, sexual deviant. His bus would have to catch me first, though.

Moose in Jax wrote:

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He probably would, the sick, sexual deviant. His bus would have to catch me first, though.

Just go wait in front of Pony's. You will see the bus letting him off..