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Jail Rape

A woman claims in a federal complaint that while she was jailed in Smith County, Miss., for three months without a hearing, she was raped and given herpes by a jailer who has since been fired.

HATTIESBURG, Miss. — A woman claims in a federal complaint that while she was jailed in Smith County, Miss., for three months without a hearing, she was raped and given herpes by a jailer who has since been fired.

Categories / Government, Personal Injury

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