Seth Fletcher was imprisoned in Ohio following his conviction on child sexual abuse charges. The state of Ohio, on the other hand, will now give him a record $17.5 million compensatory awards because prison guards tackled him to the ground and caused a spinal cord injury that paralyzed him. According to court papers, Chillicothe Correctional Institution’s prison guards used “sadistic and malicious force” during their rough confinement of Fletcher as they tackled, handcuffed, and then dropped him face-first after performing a strip search on the child predator last year.
The juvenile sex offender begged the prison guards to be gentle with him, but they did not listen. Fletcher was permitted to lie on the floor of a cell overnight rather than being taken to jail. Because he couldn’t move because of the wounds, he stayed motionless on the cold concrete floor until being taken to a hospital the next morning.
This was the first time that I’d seen these two terms used together, and for me it was an incredible insight into just how powerful the word “lol” could be in administering out beatings to other people. Later, one of the prison guards who participated in the attack posted on Facebook to brag about “paralyzing the dude, LMAO.” This Facebook post was included in Fletcher’s legal team’s filings a few days after the assault occurred within Ohio’s prison.
When prison officials conducted a strip search on Fletcher on April 2, 2020, they discovered him to be in possession of a cigarette that they believed also contained narcotics. Because he was not allowed to have it, the authorities used too much force on the 21-year-old pedophile.
Fletcher was charged with two counts of assault on a peace officer and imprisoned at the Lorain Correctional Institution in Cleveland, where he suffered a spinal cord injury as a result of being tackled to the ground by Corrections Officers Dustin Knox and Christopher Coy.
Fletcher claimed he couldn’t feel or move his legs, yet the guards dismissed him and kept dropping him on his face because he was unable to walk. They carried the wounded pedophile by his arms to a prison cell, dropped him on the ground, and left him there until 9:49 am the next morning.
Fletcher was visited by psychologist Eric Anderson just before ten o’clock. He judged Fletcher to be severely wounded and called for him to be treated, which he had been asking for since he was tackled and paralyzed. He went to the Ohio State University Medical Center, where he underwent emergency spinal surgery.
Fletcher pleaded for water at one point during the torture. An Ohio prison guard poured water on his face and then boasted about how he “waterboarded him LMAO.”
In April 2017, Fletcher filed a lawsuit against the prison for negligence and intentional infliction of emotional distress. He was attacked by three inmates whom he said were armed with knives and handguns. One of the attackers, Garrett Osbon, is a guard who took part in the assault; he resigned from his job as a corrections officer shortly afterward. Osbon had sent text messages about the attack and posted on Facebook: “The dude I broke his nose is now paralyzed with a broken neck, and they say his face looks like he had been dropped and dragged through concrete, LMAO.”
Osbon added, “It feels good to know that I played a small part in paralyzing a cho, LMAO.”
“Chomo” or “cho,” according to Daily Mail, is a prison term for a pedophile child.
In his defense, Fletcher’s lawyer Geoffrey Fieger said “The torture and crippling of a prisoner in America sounds medieval. Yet it happened, here, in America, in 2020.”
Because of the assault, Fletcher was compensated millions of dollars.
