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| Georgia inmate beating was on Facebook before guards knew |
| By wfla.com |
| Published: 04/02/2015 |
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Disturbing photos of a teen beaten at a Georgia prison — apparently captured on an inmate's cellphone — made it onto Facebook before corrections officials even knew he had been hurt, the victim's family told NBC News on Wednesday. Cortez Berry was assaulted at the Al Burruss Correctional Training Center in Forsyth in what his family says was an gang attack. The assailants apparently posted cellphone pictures to Facebook showing Berry crouched below two shirtless young men, his eye swollen shut and his neck threaded through a makeshift leash. After seeing the pictures online, his relatives say they made panicked calls to the facility that went unanswered until Berry's aunt, Shavonda Wright, drove to the prison and knocked on the door. "I rang the buzzer, nobody came," said Wright, 34. "So then I called and I said you have to go check on my nephew. I said there is something wrong with him because we have seen disturbing photos." Read More. |
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