Stark County Sheriff Timothy Swanson & His Pervert Staff

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CANTON, Ohio: Three teenage girls say they had to remove their clothes, squat, lift their breasts and open their mouths as part of strip searches before taking a cautionary tour of a juvenile detention center.

The teens, who agreed to the tour to avoid going to court on trespassing charges filed after a fight, are suing the counties that oversee the facility.

They also claim they were given dirty inmates' uniforms to wear after the strip search.

Their lawyers claim the teens — ages 14, 15 and 16 — were only bystanders at the fight, and that their parents would not have agreed to the 15-minute tour if they had known the girls would be searched.

The lawsuit seeks at least $25,000 (€18,340) in damages.

An investigator is looking into the allegations, but no conclusions have been made, Stark County Sheriff Timothy Swanson said. Court Administrator Richard DeHeer and facility superintendent Donald Thernes would not comment.



http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/08/ ... awsuit.php