Florida Prison Guards Accused of Beating Female Inmate Never Charged

Florida Prison Guards Accused of Beating Female Inmate Never Charged | WFTV

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2 жыл бұрын

It’s been two years and three months since an inmate was beaten into a quadriplegic-state inside of Lowell state prison in Ocala. Cheryl Weimar is now out on early medical release, and her lawsuit against the Department of Corrections cost taxpayers four-point-six million dollars. But the officers who allegedly beat her, still haven’t been charged. Investigative Reporter Daralene traveled six hours to the rehab center where Cheryl Weimar lives to speak with her for the first time. Read the full story: bit.ly/309cfDi
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@TheINFJChannel 2 жыл бұрын

"I'm broken and I'm bound" 😢 omg, that hurts. This is so unfair. I hope she finds peace again and gets her justice. 🙏 ❤

@kathyphillips1723 2 жыл бұрын

Amen 🙏💞💞

@sheliacabb1393 Жыл бұрын

Amen 🙏 I Decree and Declare healing as well..

@aprilmiller1773 4 ай бұрын

That was so sad to hear poor Cheryl say that 😢

@muddywaterbass5769 2 жыл бұрын

Under what law do policemen and women have a right to beat someone to the point where they become paraplegic ?

@juliejennings5445 2 жыл бұрын

No Honey, it's not because you didn't clean that last toilet. It's because of the evil in those monsters. Those monsters need a visit.

@beautruex7012 2 жыл бұрын

From someone who Eats Monsters Like Me!

@adolforodriguez8041 Жыл бұрын

their names and addresses should be dropped so the public can see them. If America is a good country, evil like this should** be wiped out*

@shannonsidebottom9490 Жыл бұрын

If u can fog a mirror and have no felonies u too can b a "corrections" officer... there may be one in fifty that are truly good and maybe most go in it with good in their heart but that seems to be quickly pounded out of them by both sides... management and inmates it can't be an easy job but some truly don't belong in authority over anything.even an animal doesn't deserve to be treated like they treated her and hers is just one of many I'm sure....as I'm sure so much is swept aside and labeled something other than what it really is...

@happyinparis 11 ай бұрын

Exactly! There is no humanity inside them. They are monsters.

@muttsrus1919 2 жыл бұрын

No accountability! This has to end!!! 😞 and brutal.

@meahdahlgren6537 3 ай бұрын

Sad but true

@barbaradavis8686 2 жыл бұрын

It's sad how someone can do harm to a person and not feel a thing

@esabal1989 2 жыл бұрын

And 4.2 million was to justify what happened. Now look where the money being spent on he care. Hope someone can care for her. She is human too

@nuracaicedobakrahmed4734 2 жыл бұрын

Believe me i know I've been through it

@MR-ob6nj 2 жыл бұрын

The guards almost always have 100% immunity. If you go to jail or prison , you instantly become a victim of the state.

@kathleendobens6648 2 жыл бұрын

Good reporting. I live in new hampshire and I never heard of this story. What a very sad story. The poor woman can never be healed. They should be in prison.

@presidentevil9951 2 жыл бұрын

one of the guards accused of beating cheryl has been arrested on forcible rape of a child

@ayejay4028 Жыл бұрын

The really sad thing is theres thousands of cheryl wiemars we will never hear about

@black1582 2 жыл бұрын

This is one of the most important new stories in world history, thank you for doing this story.

@littlewhitecrow9159 Жыл бұрын

Hopefully, history will remember that in this day and age, good old freedom loving America, a beacon of liberty to the world, still condoned slavery and cruelty. The government found loopholes for free/cheap labor and turns a blind eye to cruel and unusual punishment. The very Constitution meant to protect us is used against us.

@muddywaterbass5769 2 жыл бұрын

Why are these guards not in custody ,it's been more than two years .The state has paid out a judgement but what about arresting these guards ,Where is the justice?

@crystalroseallen 2 жыл бұрын

I could tell you some horrific stories about Lowell and Broward. Lowell held me under investigation in confinement wrongfully and put pregnant inmates in a dorm that needed condemned. Broward is now closed down. Broward was one of the worst prisons ever! Broward would serve us rotted food sometimes. Some sick officers in these prison systems!

@manweller1 2 жыл бұрын

OMG that’s horrible rotten food 🤢🤢

@sellyboy727 2 жыл бұрын

Glad u made it out babygirl. I'm from st.pete my bro jus got sent up for 18mos he still in Orlando rn. I pray he make it all in one piece them mfs sick in there. I may gotta come visit ya. Love

@bobbyb.7809 2 жыл бұрын

Ain't no prison in Broward ever!

@Dtachedkid Жыл бұрын

@@bobbyb.7809 you're a cop and just don't want to look bad right now. There was a jail and it's closed now

@kawai99100 Жыл бұрын

@@bobbyb.7809 Really????? Got proof?

@PapayaYaya888 2 жыл бұрын

I’m so sorry Cheryl you didn’t deserve any of this .

@markguckel 2 жыл бұрын

While incarcerated in the Florida Department of Corrections, I was set up by staff to be beaten for filing grievances. I resonate with what Cheryl went through and my heart goes out to her. This story is all too common and the Inspector General's Office does little to hold correctional officers and their supervisors responsible for violence aimed at offenders in their care.

@presidentevil9951 2 жыл бұрын

are you okay now or you have permanent injuries and pain?

@michaeldixon0015 2 жыл бұрын

This is because the 13th amendment allows this , this is shameful

@kai82holman69 2 жыл бұрын

Prison guards are animals

@donkeypunchout 2 жыл бұрын

These guards are rapist and just foul human beings.. people dont know how foul it truly is in prison..i had a relative locked up at Lowell they told me a similar story of a female inmate that was raped and they filed paperwork against the guard and they threw her in the hole and made it as miserable as possible for her until she said she lied and made it all up..that is so screwed up me and my family member had keywords that if anything like that happened to them i would instantly know which ones and i would have dealt with them on the outside..this is how you would solve that problem but the guards dont fear consequences from wrongdoing in the prison and they actually screw the inmates up even worse mentally than they were before they got there and they think the inmate will function better in society after doing things like this to them..that is how sick and twisted their heads are they are the worst of the worst i feel bad for any inmate dealing with these conditions and people dont care until it affects them or their loved ones it's like people think they are not people anymore when they get locked up animals get better treatment than people do that are locked up that is sad and needs to change..

@michaeldixon0015 2 жыл бұрын

@@donkeypunchout holy crap dude that’s awful. They really need to reform the entire system.

@dieseltech386 2 жыл бұрын

That place is hell on earth! The justice department has been investigating that place for years! It's also the rape capital of FL.

@babygirlwendy1_702_backup 2 жыл бұрын

OMG¡! THIS IS SO HORRIBLE¡! WHEN I SAW THAT POOR WOMAN LAYING IN THAT HOSPITAL BED, HOOKED UP TO ALL OF THOSE I.V. LINES, TEARS IN HER EYES, CHOKED UP, AND CAN BARELY SPEAK AT ALL, I CRIED, I LITERALLY BALLED LIKE A BABY¡! THIS SERIOUSLY HURT MY HEART REALLY BAD, MY PRAYERS GO OUT TO YOU CHERYL, GOD BLESS YOU AND MAY THE ANGELS COVER YOU WITH THEIR WINGS AND PROTECT YOU¡!

@legenddaughterrd Жыл бұрын

THE LAWS DOESNT WORK IN FLORIDA AND I CAN PROVE IT

@staceychapman6855 Жыл бұрын

Absolutely disgusting that they weren't charged. Those in the position to charge them are just as corrupt as the two men. All the way up to the Governor of the state for not having someone from the outside investigate

@margiepenn5044 2 жыл бұрын

its the same song...people in law enforcement get away with murder. Defund all of them.

@rodriguez9497 2 жыл бұрын

Even though she was in prison she is a human being and did not deserve this God bless her and I hope she gets better dam this is sad 😢

@meahdahlgren6537 Жыл бұрын

Right

@pagliaccisghost269 2 жыл бұрын

My mom was a nurse at Lowell for many years. She couldn't stand the corrections officers. They were ALL dirty. She left to go to end of life care at Hospice. It wasn't much better. There is no longer "bedside manner". The health care workers have become callous and uncaring. It's a real shame.

@debbiemartin2026 Жыл бұрын

Yes…Hospice is all about money. I went through it all with my mom when she was terminal. It was all about the head nurse coordinator and billing. And about making money on meds. Not the care of the patient. I told her off bc they pulled out on my mother at the most critical time for 24 hours (no nurse care) bc they needed the 24 hours to change the diagnosis so they can still keep billing. They came back with a box of meds they probably charged thousands for through her Medicare. She never use dit.threw them all out. Lol probably worth tons on the street. Methadone, Oxy, etc.

@meahdahlgren6537 Жыл бұрын

@@debbiemartin2026 will sometimes

@stacyjane321 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for doing this story, it needs to be heard! Prison reform is so badly needed!

@presidentevil9951 2 жыл бұрын

you don't know what prison reform is?

@hunhun23 2 жыл бұрын

THIS MAKES ME SO PISSED OFF THAT THOSE OFFICERS WERE NEVER CHARGED

@legenddaughterrd Жыл бұрын

THELAW DOES NOT WORK IN FLORIDA WHEN THEY ALL WORK FOR THE SAME DHHS ORGANIZATION TIME TO SHUT DHHS ORGANNIZATION DONE AND DEFUND THEM

@karaconiglio986 2 жыл бұрын

I was in Palm Beach County for one month the staff are more dangerous than the inmates.

@OG-Capo--- Жыл бұрын

Wow unbelievable. NOBODY DESERVES THIS AT ALL🤬🤬🤬 people need to be held accountable.

@helpme100 2 жыл бұрын

Heartbreaking, it might not be today but government, the state and definitely the guards will pay. At the end

@megalou6567 2 жыл бұрын

Lord please improve Cheryl’s life even if just a little. God bless her and her family.

@happyinparis 11 ай бұрын

Amen!

@lynnleigha580 2 жыл бұрын

I've been in jail before, they treat you like you are nothing, like less than garbage

@conkeeper 2 жыл бұрын

How about a follow up story, documenting the findings of the FDLE and the state attorney's office that were just released.

@danielolson437 2 жыл бұрын

Short story = They tortured her for sport and ego. How do we hold these people accountable? Lawsuit awards come from taxpayers

@crystalroseallen 2 жыл бұрын

Lowell is crooked that is why! I was there and they are cruel!

@iveyhealth2266 2 жыл бұрын

Yes very! My friend was locked up for 90 days under a PREA investigation as she was assaulted by a guard. After the 90 days, the verdict came back inconclusive and she was placed right back in the very same dorm with the very same officer, and is being Harrased daily. She was just released from confinement again (30 days) after they supposedly found contraband in her locker. I am reaching out to a senator, state rep, and local grass roots organizations to help get justice for her. She needs to be transferred away from Lowell.

@crystalgoode8411 2 жыл бұрын

I am crying...complete disgust

@KnuckleHead21212 Жыл бұрын

I've been to prison in Florida and an officer named Tony zolo handcuffed and beat me in the laundry room.

@carmenfleming1432 Жыл бұрын

I worked for tdcj for two years and it's terrible place to work the guards beat the inmates up all the time for no reason and if you say something all the guards try to get you in trouble the guards are criminals

@Anonymous_________ 2 жыл бұрын

Just another day in DOC.

@jillcoggan2533 Жыл бұрын

Both men should be prosecuted and jailed . They might get some of their own behaviour turned on them.. bloody disgraceful behaviour!!!!

@michaels2208 2 жыл бұрын

sometimes these stories are just filler and if you don't pay attention you might not even hear the story. thank you for following up and really showing the cruelty of this situation. I hope you continue to follow up on other cases with Florida doc. this is not an isolated incident.

@angelaprice9696 2 жыл бұрын

No it's not not at all

@leslygibbs4080 Жыл бұрын

I literally cried hearing her when she said “if only I had cleaned that last toilet, I wouldn’t be here today.” It sounds like she’s almost blaming herself for what’s happened to her at the hands of pure monsters. This breaks my heart!! My ex husband’s grandmother was quadriplegic and so I’m very familiar with the life she will be living once she gets over the immediate damages. But she’s got a long road ahead of her for even that to happen. I realize this was done a year ago so she maybe my now but I’d love to know how she’s doing 😢❤. My heart is so heavy for her. And whatever happened to the monsters that did this??

@davidtofast8351 2 жыл бұрын

So said to see. This kinda trash happens daily in the jails. and if you report it. It will come back twice as bad.

@mba2ceo 2 жыл бұрын

More public awareness needs to be given to this situation. Sherriff and DA need to be removed for Official Malfeasance. My opinion

@legenddaughterrd Жыл бұрын

THE LAW DOESNT WORK IN FLORIDA AND I CAN PROVE IT THEY THINK GRADT JUDD IS SOME HERO JUST WHAT HE AND HIS COMPANY ARE THE CULPRIT THEY STAGE AND PLOT PLAN AND USE ACTORS THEY ARE THE REAL CRIMINALS

@DomesticTruther 2 жыл бұрын

He also was accused of having sexual relations with a minor who was in the system... street justice it is then

@isidrorsantos3773 2 жыл бұрын

Those 2 prison officer who did this to Cheryl should be sent to Russia and be interrogated by spesnaz soldiers. See if they like it.

@private1750 2 жыл бұрын

Only way to retribution is equal suffering for the guards that did this. Take what is precious to them.

@ayejay4028 Жыл бұрын

Prison guards are some of the most brutal and inhumane people alive, its the whole culture and “us vs them” mentality

@juliejennings5445 2 жыл бұрын

We're are you Ron DeathDesantis? This is totally UNGODLY! The state that puts In God We Trust on their license plate tags.

@lisagormley8885 Жыл бұрын

That guards should be in prison this is disgusting and every penny of her care should be paid for by the state

@angelaprice9696 2 жыл бұрын

Please stop over charging ,over sentencing, and ware housing people for the purpose of politics .I was there I have health issues that were not treated and sever PTSD the medical neglect and abuse is a horror women's prison . Nobody deserves this kind of abuse .send in the Feds

@yvetteschools4979 2 жыл бұрын

4.6 not enough

@mandymoore5774 2 жыл бұрын

4.6 mil really isn’t anything if you can’t actually use it for something other than paying for rehabilitation.

@mumtazsheikh690 Жыл бұрын

I don't care what she did. No one deserves what she went through

@Trevor-pi5tp 2 жыл бұрын

What were her charges?

@cloisterene 2 жыл бұрын

God bless Cheryl Weimar and this wonderful, beautiful young reporter who is making sure she and others suffering from that horrific system are not forgotten. Daralene Jones deserves a pulitzer prize in investigative journalism, and perhaps a nobel peace prize as well.

@RadioJoeInfo Жыл бұрын

I’m convinced that the federal government needs to take over all prisons & jails period. I think that’s the only way this will stop?

@eddypaz1869 2 жыл бұрын

Dats crazy can’t do time in Florida

@lynnleigha580 2 жыл бұрын

Not like she'll ever be able to enjoy the money

@someonesomebody5453 2 жыл бұрын

wow -thats so disturbing -what if that was your mother -sister etc. what would you do about it?

@henryparrott2447 Жыл бұрын

Reporter seems like good person God bless you

@Kane-ib5sn 2 жыл бұрын

this is entirely society's fault. not just for putting two unworthy male jail guards in a women's prison, but not having proper incarceration for inmates - you want to avoid these circumstances, by designing the system around the concept, that a human, is still a human, unless he/she is a psychopath - and needs to be put into a box - or terminated.

@matthewmoody2760 2 жыл бұрын

The worst are working the Duval county jail

@cooper7031 Жыл бұрын

What did Cheryl do to land in prison in the first place?

@Best2cents 2 жыл бұрын

OMG HORRIBLE 😳 OLD LIVES MATTER!!! We will all get older like it or not!

@sadeegreenTV 2 жыл бұрын

U Little 🤡

@Riversbend710 2 жыл бұрын

Third grade bully's. Seems that these departments hire their own kind.

@PapayaYaya888 2 жыл бұрын

“Safety of our prisoners “ hahaha it shows 😆 more like safety of their asses on the news

@dorothyrichardson5585 2 жыл бұрын

So sad my pray goes out to this lady 😓🙏

@godsson2259 2 жыл бұрын

$4 million is a lot of money to get a hit squad and and find all correctional officers involved and get rid of them if that was my mama my auntie my sister my cousin that's exactly what I do with that 4 million I'll get my own goddamn Justice.

@hunhun23 2 жыл бұрын

I WAS AT LOWELL FOR 2 YEARS AND I HAVE SEEN ALOT OF BAD STUFF GO ON IN THERE

@wensmith6752 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Mamm for your efforts to expose this helping to find justice!!

@crystaltaylor7325 2 жыл бұрын

Hate to say it. But I've been to that shit hole and that prison is ran by men and they know they can do whatever they want to do to you. That place needs so much improvements. Correctional officers will walk in the showers if you make a complaint you better be ready for a fight. It's sad how they treat us Women . Yes I know we broke the law but what we go through there no one should. Please help the women in that place. People make mistakes I was one of them . My first time and only time. I still think of the girls that are doing a very long time in there it's sad brakes my heart. We are not dogs or a toy to play with.....

@davidmorales3792 2 жыл бұрын

While ANALY receiving FLAMING PINE APPLES!

@nateskinner5152 2 жыл бұрын

Ridiculous

@Nadeshiroo 2 жыл бұрын

I say do a movie on this. Those guards need charged and given the max. Florida needs to pay more then that. If they can’t do anything with them make them pay her medical bills. This pisses me off.

@davidholliday8452 2 жыл бұрын

Wow tha criminal still working like nothing happen Alot corruption is why tha criminal some time get criminals charges

@Falasca94 4 ай бұрын

Great reporting

@tabbathamichaud7662 2 жыл бұрын

Where's the great almighty Grady Judd on this? Silence?

@MadSceintist Жыл бұрын

Vengeance needs to be common enough that these things don't happen. Accountability should be equal

@sylviabennan 2 жыл бұрын

Wow they need a completely new system and staff at lowell. been hearing bout this prison multiple times today all bad things jesus

@Ma007rk 11 ай бұрын

This is absolutely disgusting AND revolting. 4+ million dollars is a slap in the face because her attorney will get at least a third of that, plus expenses that she is going to incur for the rest of her life. Well, what is left of it..........

@Tranqualthoughts Жыл бұрын

Seriously only 4 million. It will likely cost far more for her care for the rest of her life!

@davidholliday8452 2 жыл бұрын

Alot corruption is why tha criminal not get charges

@dianekeen6508 5 ай бұрын

I once worked at levy forestry camp and years later became an inmate. I’ve been out four years and everyone at fwrc knew about this. One of the assholes involved was still working there. Our understanding was that he was only cleared to work the central tower but that was definitely not the case! The female ex-officer really couldn’t have said it any better and I hope like hell she continues to voice the truth! Care, custody, control is a fucking joke to most of the so called officers in the prison system and the ones that really do care don’t last very long. I watched a documentary about the prison system in Norway and if Florida could just open their eyes and look around there are other much better ways of running things!! Their way does not work at all!! Thank you for being brave enough to share this story and show the world what’s really going on here!! These inmates are all someone’s someone and anyone capable of this kind of immorality is no better than if not worse than those they’re impacting!

@calvintownley9089 Жыл бұрын

None of these prisons need to do these things

@rhondastiers3261 2 жыл бұрын

She is a quad not a para.

@connieellsworth2923 19 күн бұрын

Does it matter? Gosh!

@lonzo8345 2 жыл бұрын

Well justice wont happen people vote on things in life that hurts others such as qualified immunity long as they have it they could plead the fifth damn its ashamed on how the government is

@jdog667 Жыл бұрын

Its June 1st 2023 ,,I just viewed another piece done on prison guards beating inmates ,,my stepson suffered this kind of abuse ! My question ,,what is being done about this ,,,Im about done ,,suits will be filed if this doesn't stop ! Accountability must be assured or fire em all !

@dreadheadRedd77 2 жыл бұрын

They should have their spinal cords cut for doing that to a defenseless handcuffed inmate. All involved should become quadriplegic…

@speakvanholding247etc 2 жыл бұрын

The views at this time is clear that people do not care about prisoners.

@michellelusby2810 6 ай бұрын

This is so sad ! 😢 I’m broken those words are heart breaking. Yes why aren’t they arrested yet? They should been held accountable to there actions . The problem is they can’t wear pants at home so they come to work at a female prison and gain up on a woman to beat her. They was probably hoping she would succum from her injuries. It’s so sad.

@brendawatt2318 Жыл бұрын

No one is held accountable and the fact that this woman is paralyzed this millions of dollars really doesn’t know good other than the pay her doctor bills and keep her alive she can enjoy it you can enjoy life I mean a little she can but I’m sure with the thought of everything that happened to her she’s traumatized for life😢

@Anne.411 Жыл бұрын

This is unacceptable

@lisagormley8885 Жыл бұрын

The problem is the system dehumanises inmates

@wizzardofpaws2420 7 ай бұрын

To beat a women half to death and paralyzed? AND NO CHARGES against the people who did it? If anything, it will make you want to stay the heck out of jail.

@paulacullin8900 2 жыл бұрын

Heartbreaking 💔 You know every last one of them BEAT their girlfriends and wives!!!!???!🐽🐽🐽🐽

@pamelajohnson5913 Жыл бұрын

When I was at Lowell have you heard anything about the (13) Steps???

@yvetteschools4979 2 жыл бұрын

There should be a reckoning

@why55555 2 жыл бұрын

I think my disabled son Mike died in Florida Dept of Corrections Prisons Systems. It's the last place we had contact with him months ago. They kept throwing him into seclusion for months at a time after screwing around with his Psych meds. I'm Ret 33yr Sarasota Psych Nurse/USAVet/Foster Mom Whistleblower reporting abuses to children/teens & Psych populations in Sarasota, Manatee & Hillsborough counties. I recently found out my dead Exhubby was CIA Minister!🙉#ExNurseApologyTour

@tamecarichmond7332 2 жыл бұрын

🙏🙏🙏🙏

@kai82holman69 2 жыл бұрын

QUADRAPLEGIC... JHC

@lauriediorio574 Жыл бұрын

Horrific 😢😢😢😢

@triciahughes4331 3 ай бұрын

She’s a quadriplegic, not a paraplegic. Paraplegic is from the waist down and Quadriplegic is from the neck down.

@justjessi5679 Жыл бұрын

I survived Lowell, thank God. lt. turner was such a little prick. I stayed under the radar only befriended one person while I was there she passed away four years ago but until then we stayed very close with 1000 miles between us, nothing could have broken our bonds. We only had each other then. I miss her rip E

@MadSceintist Жыл бұрын

I won't be taken into custody ever again, my life is worth anyone else's. A badge, an order, the system are not in your favor. Fight the fight

@spmak3856 Жыл бұрын

It’s a year later now, any updates?

@ilovegir Жыл бұрын

If a person isn't safe in prison.

@kellylestig4941 10 ай бұрын

This is absolutely devastating. I feel her pain God I pray she gets through this and she can find peace and solace. Why weren’t those people arrested or even charge? The one guy had a previous assault on his girlfriend he look like he was 15 years old. how could he be working there and the fact that nobody’s been charged unbelievable to the lady who was hurt I am so very sorry you were going through this you didn’t deserve this. I’m praying for you sweetie.