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REVEALING THE TRUTH

Back in 2012, we took on a case where a young woman was sodomized by a
couple of local cops. An on duty police officer called an off duty police officer, to
come to the police station so they could take a female prisoner in the local jail,
out for a few unlogged minutes, to be sodomized; who was she to tell right? The
current police chief Will Lynd, asked her to talk to the local police chaplain and
not tell anyone, knowing she had an IQ in the 70’s. I can speak of this case, which
I don’t speak of other cases because they involve children. I can speak of this
adult case. She came to us, the FACSAFoundation.org and we obtained a probono attorney for her. She won her case suing the city and the local police
department. When we picked up the case, the on duty cop was still working, and
they let him go when they learned we obtained an attorney for her. The cop who
sodomized her got a year’s probation.
This was not my first run in with this corrupt police department. I fell in 1998 at
the local International Paper Plant and shattered my wrist, damaging the nerves.
Rumors spread around our small town that I was on illicit drugs. I called the police
chief then, Ronnie Coleman, and offered to take a drug test, but he would not
hear of it. He knew I was a Christian woman, quoted me a scripture, then said,
“We will see.” He instead had my board member, Maggie Haskins, continually