Witnesses Say Staffers Beat Florida Inmate Viciously

Miami Herald ✒ Witnesses called it a vicious mugging. The alleged ‘perps’: prison guards.

Ryan Dionne held the emotionally distraught woman down and Keith Turner kneed her repeatedly in the head and back, according to witnesses to the brutal daytime assault.

The two men then allegedly dragged their victim across a long field and a pavilion — her head “bobbing” off the ground, her eyes rolled back in her head — as they ordered potential witnesses: “Look away! Look Away!”

Some did as they were told. But others looked on.

Now they are telling their stories as part of a lawsuit that seeks to recover money for Cheryl Weimar, 51, who is paralyzed from the neck down as a result of the Aug. 21, 2019, attack.

But because it happened at Lowell Correctional Institution and Weimar was an inmate, afforded few rights and little dignity, and Dionne and Turner were staff members, the alleged attackers have not been charged with a crime, and one of them remains on staff, his salary covered by the taxpayers of Florida.

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