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| Loyola Students Say Inmates Beat Them After Arrest |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 10/01/2004 |
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Two former Loyola College students are suing the school and city police for $2 million, alleging they were arrested without cause by campus police and then beaten by other inmates in the city's lockup. In an eight-count complaint filed in Baltimore County Circuit Court, Thomas Michael Duffy of Mechanicsburg, Pa., and Jared Patrick Geary of Cheshire, Mass., allege battery, false arrest, false imprisonment and malicious prosecution. "The school tells the parents of students that the students will be protected," said Michael P. May, an attorney for the students. "They were not intoxicated, they weren't disruptive, they weren't mouthy. They really weren't doing anything," May said. According to the complaint, Duffy and Geary, both 21-year-old seniors at the time, were walking on campus near the Gallagher Park student residence complex in September 2002 when they were arrested by campus police officer Jeff Prawdzik. The two were placed in a holding cell at the city's Central Intake and Booking Facility. In the cell, they were severely beaten by other detainees while employees at Central Booking did nothing to stop it. The screening unit of the State's Attorney's Office of Baltimore City later reviewed the paperwork and determined there was no probable cause to arrest the students, the complaint states. Duffy, who has undergone plastic surgery for the facial injuries he sustained in the attack, left school without graduating. Geary graduated from Loyola. In addition to Loyola College and city police, the suit names Prawdzik and the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services as defendants. |
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