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| Six deputies face federal charges for jail beating |
| By NewsNet5 |
| Published: 07/16/2004 |
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Officers who guarded prisoners at a local jail now face possible time behind bars themselves. A federal grand jury indictment was unsealed Thursday, and six Mahoning County (Ohio) deputies are now charged in a brutal jail beating. According to the indictment, in late December 2001, senior management at the Mahoning County Jail instructed and directed the brutal beating of prisoner Tawhon Easterly in an apparent retaliation for Easterly striking a female officer. After the beating, investigators say Easterly was dragged naked through the jail to an isolation cell. Two supervisors and four other deputies were charged in the beating. The supervisors are 49-year-old Ronald Denson and 53-year-old William Deluca, both of Youngstown. All of them are now facing federal charges of conspiracy against civil rights and deprivation of civil rights. Sheriff Randall Wellington, who was not implicated in the beatings, was stunned by the news, but did not try to protect his men. "I do not defend these officers at all at this point," said Wellington. U.S. attorney Gregory White issued a statement, saying the indictments demonstrate that, "no person is above the reach of the law and no person is below the most fundamental protections." Three of the deputies charged in the beating continue to work at the jail, though the sheriff says that may soon change. |
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