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Ohio to Pay $17.5M to Convicted Child Sex Offender After Prison Guards Boasted About Paralyzing Him

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“It feels good to know that I played a small part in paralyzing a cho, LMAO.”

A convicted child sex offender in Ohio is to receive $17.5 million in compensation after prison guards left him paralyzed — and boasted about it afterwards.

21-year-old Seth XXXXXX was left in a wheelchair and unable to move from the chest down after he was tackled and dropped multiple times while handcuffed.

After handcuffing him and escorting him to the medical clinic, the guards claimed he tried to pull away from them en route; when Corrections Officer Christopher Coy failed to leg sweep him, he tackled Fletcher to the ground.

Fletcher told them his neck hurt and he couldn’t move his legs, so they picked him up, face down, and carried him the rest of the way. The nurse deemed he was okay and sent him back to the segregation unit.

Still handcuffed and face down, the guards carried him by his arms and legs, dropping him a number of times on his face on the way back, before leaving him on a bed in a suicide watch cell, his arms hanging limply over the side. Cameras along the route were reportedly inoperable that day.

The acting captain checked on him around 2:30 AM and was told by Fletcher he couldn’t move, but no action was taken. It wasn’t until a psychologist visited his cell shortly before 10 AM that medical help was summoned. He was taken to Ohio State Wexner Medical Center to undergo emergency spinal surgery; but Fletcher had been left quadriplegic.

As part of his federal civil rights lawsuit against the prison security and nursing staff, Fletcher’s legal team cited text messages and Facebook posts sent by one of the guards, Garrett Osbon.

“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” he wrote. “It feels good to know that I played a small part in paralyzing a cho, LMAO.”

“we also water boarded him LMAO”, he also wrote, and “I broke a dudes nose today, yeah this was not reported, there was way too much blood so I mopped it up.”

“Cho,” or “cho mo”, is prison slang for child molester.

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15 thoughts on “Ohio to Pay $17.5M to Convicted Child Sex Offender After Prison Guards Boasted About Paralyzing Him”

  • Ryan
    November 4, 2021

    Where TF are the criminal charges?!?! State attorneys should be disbarred for refusing to do their jobs in these situations, and should be subject to a writ of mandamus or malpractice lawsuits or SOMETHING.

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  • Tim
    November 4, 2021

    Funny it always seems to be that the cameras are ” inoperable ” when something happens to one of us but they seem to work fine if something happens to a guard. Its the same everywhere .

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    • FAC Contributor #3Post author
      November 4, 2021

      Clearly!

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  • sarah
    November 4, 2021

    But the guards didn’t get any prison time?? OMG!

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  • Sex Offender Truth
    November 4, 2021

    Money is meaningless in this sort of situation. This was torture and nothing less. This sort of sh*t is the reason that so many (including myself) who are innocent are intimidated into taking a plea deal.

    This is sickening happening anywhere – BUT – in the United States of America it is unacceptable!

    When I think of all the wasted lives, time, and lowered quality of life for nearly 1 million American citizens it makes my blood boil! This sort of abuse is criminal and would NOT occur if some sadistic politicians and law enforcement agencies were forced to use actual science and data.

    Why is this allowed? All Lives Matter!

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  • Garrett Osbon better stay away from my kids
    November 4, 2021

    Will Garrett Osbon face criminal charges?

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    • FAC Contributor #3Post author
      November 4, 2021

      apparently not

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  • Bwj
    November 4, 2021

    No criminal charges filed whatsoever. There are no words to remedy the injustice done to this guy. I don’t know what, and don’t care why he was in prison. This is totally unacceptable. Inmate advocates should be outraged as well. Just exactly who was a danger to whom?

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