JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A Jacksonville woman was beaten to death inside the Duval County jail, but records show she should not have been there in the first place. A judge had ordered Jema Schunke to be taken to a state mental health hospital a month before she died last year.
Susan Owens remembers the first day she met Jema Schunke.
“We met at the Mission House over in Jax Beach. I started out by wanting to pray with her and I had another friend that we tried to sit down and pray with her, and she got really upset about it, and she didn’t want anything to do with prayer, so she got up and walked away and was saying all kinds of expletives, and I knew right then and there that I was gonna have to look out for her,” Owens said…