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State Settles Lawsuit By Marysville Prison Inmate Who Says She Was Raped By A Guard

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The state will pay more than 500 thousand dollars to a Cleveland woman to settle a lawsuit claiming she was sexually assaulted by a guard at the Ohio Reformatory for Women in Marysville. The 29-year-old woman said a guard forced her to perform oral sex on him three times in 2009. She says the guard and others threatened retaliation after she spoke to investigators. The guard was moved to a men's prison. He was not criminally charged.

Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.