Cops sexually assault another one - Pennsylvania edition.

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About 15 minutes after the stop, Police Chief Robert Salem and Lawrence County District Attorney Joshua Lamancusa arrived at the scene, where they grilled Monette about her companion and asked her whether she had any drugs. She said she didn't, but they did not believe her.

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I don't blame them for being suspicious. I'm suspicious of just about everyone.

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claiming to smell the odor of burnt marijuana coming from Carbone's car, Maiella arrested her on suspicion of driving under the influence. He did not administer a roadside sobriety test

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So, "I smell something" = DUI charge now?

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he later obtained a warrant to search her car. Neither search discovered any contraband.

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You'd think it would be over now and she'd be free to go.

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At the Lawrence County Correctional Center, Carbone was forced to remove her clothing, "bend over, spread her buttocks, and cough." Carbone says two corrections officers, April Brightsue and Niesha Savage, mistakenly thought they saw a plastic bag protruding from her vagina, so they repeatedly instructed her to "prod her personal areas by inserting her fingers into her vagina" in the hope of dislodging the imaginary item. Then they had her bend over, spread her buttocks, and cough again.

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Well looks like you were wrong. Surely its over now, right?

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they instructed him to take Carbone to Jameson Hospital in New Castle for "an internal examination of her body cavities." At the hospital, the cops found a doctor, Bernard Geiser, who agreed that Carbone needed treatment "for a possible overdose, rectal packing and/or oral intake of a controlled substance." But Carbone did not consent to "treatment,"

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Doubling down, as usual.

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Carbone "was restrained to a bed by her wrists and ankles" as Geiser "performed an internal inspection of her vagina and rectum." He did not find anything. When Carbone said she needed to urinate, she was instructed to do so by squatting over a bedpan on a chair. No foreign objects were found in the bedpan, and no drugs were detected in her urine .

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Well frick that was pretty extreme. Didn't find anything so I guess we'll go find something else to do. Wait, nope.

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she was subjected to an involuntary CT scan, which found no foreign objects.

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Game. Set. Match, right? Oh, of course not. Nothing better to do than to repeat the vaginal and anal probings.

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Still determined to discover contraband, Geiser "performed a second internal examination of [Carbone's] vagina and rectum,"

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Damn dude, you call yourself a doctor?

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then instructed two nurses to perform a third. They also swabbed her vagina "for testing." After none of these inspections turned up evidence of a crime, Maiella told Carbone she was free to go.

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The end.

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