Story Created:
Jul 2, 2009 at 5:06 PM CDT
Story Updated:
Jul 2, 2009 at 7:17 PM CDT
Oklahoma leaders are asking for justice for a woman who was raped while serving jail time. The NAACP wants to reopen the case of Pamela Smith. In 1997, Smith was brutally and repeatedly raped while she was serving time at an Oklahoma Correctional Institute. The grandmother of Candace Rowe also wants justice, she says Rowe was solicited for sex by the same state officer when she was just 15-years-old. They're asking for Lieutenant Governor Jari Askins' help because they want her to ask the federal government to investigate agencies like the Department of Public Safety, and OHP. Smith says Attorney General Drew Edmondson has tried to coverup what's taken place.
Pamela Smith, who's also the Author of "Begging for Justice" said, "All I'm looking for is justice to stop this from happening to other victims. Women are being raped and abused in prison, and they're afraid to cry out because the people who are raping and abusing them are their caretakers."
"The officials here in oklahoma come down in support, with taxpayers money, of a person who has committed this kind of a crime." Roosevelt Milton, the Fr. State President of the NAACP said.
