A man who was denied medical care for 12 hours after being assaulted in a Riverside County jail required two emergency surgeries when finally taken to the hospital, to treat a severe infection and remove an organ, according to a recently filed lawsuit.
Johnathin Onello claims he was severely beaten by other detainees after being booked on suspicion of theft at the John J. Benoit Detention Center in Indio in March. He says he then waited hours to be taken to the hospital while guards from the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department didn’t believe his pleas for help. When he awoke from two surgeries to remove his spleen, ruptured from the beating, the guards had left.
A sheriff’s department spokesperson said the agency does not comment on open court cases…