ST. LOUIS – An exclusive FOX 2 News report exposes disturbing new allegations involving the troubled St. Louis City Justice Center.
A woman has filed a lawsuit against the City of St. Louis, saying she was sexually assaulted by a mail inmate; something her attorney would find impossible at a truly secure facility.
Male and female inmates are held separately at the jail, locked away from each other. The lawsuit, however, says a faulty lock allowed a male detainee to sexually assault a female detainee as she slept.
Recent years have seen a litany of issues at the jail: inmates repeatedly getting out of their cells, setting fires, holding a guard hostage and beating him, along with dozens of emergency responses for drug overdoses and inmate deaths.
“This is just one more example (of unacceptable issues at the jail),” attorney Sue McGraugh said. “There’s no way that in a jail that has even the most basic of structures that a female inmate should be sexually assaulted by a male inmate.”