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Arizona teacher stabbed, raped after being left alone with sex offender at a prison
National Post ^ | June 19, 2014 | AP

Posted on 06/19/2014 8:30:44 AM PDT by rickmichaels

PHOENIX — A teacher at an Arizona prison was alone in a room full of sex offenders before being stabbed and sexually assaulted by a convicted rapist, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press about an attack that highlighted major security lapses at the facility.

The attack occurred Jan. 30 at the Eyman prison’s Meadows Unit, which houses about 1,300 rapists, child molesters and other sex offenders. The teacher was administering a high school equivalency test to about a half-dozen inmates in a classroom with no guard nearby and only a radio to summon help. The Department of Corrections issued only a bare-bones press release after the attack, but the AP pieced together what happened based on interviews and investigatory reports obtained under the Arizona Public Records Act.

After the last of the other inmates left, Jacob Harvey asked the teacher if she could open the bathroom and then attacked her, records show. Harvey is accused of stabbing her in the head with a pen, forcing her to the ground and raping her.

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To: rickmichaels
State prison officials, however, dismiss the concerns. They say the assault at the prison about 60 miles southeast of Phoenix is a risk that comes with the job of overseeing violent prison inmates.

Unless the teacher was taught how to assess risky situations, subdue inmates and passed the fitness standards for guards, her job wasn't "overseeing" inmates; it was teaching them and there should have been a guard present.

The article said her radio wasn't tuned to the right channel - didn't it have a panic button? My EMS radio has a panic button and the signal identifies the specific radio.

Grabbing the radio and hitting that recessed panic button in an attack would be hard enough; holding the transmit button and talking impossible. Probably end up in a fight to see who could beat the other one in the head with the radio.

21 posted on 06/19/2014 9:04:49 AM PDT by heartwood
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

The U.S. government has turned these people loose on us...By the thousands..

And the landscape is already littered with American victims of this government sponsored lawlessness.


22 posted on 06/19/2014 9:11:46 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Black Agnes

That’s true, but how many Native Americans do you know who have Jewish names? Maybe his mother is Pocahontas Goldstein.


23 posted on 06/19/2014 9:20:46 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Hitlery: Incarnation of evil.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

I thought his surname was Hendry. I know more than few Christian Jacob’s.


24 posted on 06/19/2014 9:29:45 AM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Make that Harvey, not Hendry.

Not aware of Harvey being a Jewish surname. Correct me if I’m wrong.


25 posted on 06/19/2014 9:30:23 AM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: rickmichaels

Not critically injured? She was RAPED by this dirty, smelly, repulsive thing. Well he was a gentleman, offering the phone when be finished. And cameras will do what? Allow the guards to watch the rape?


26 posted on 06/19/2014 9:30:38 AM PDT by informavoracious (Open your eyes, people!)
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To: Black Agnes

You are correct. From an article about his original offense and arrest.

“Harvey was found on the Tohono O’odham Nation Reservation in Sells, AZ where he was being held as a runaway.” http://www.kpho.com/story/16056184/police-search-for-person-of-interest-in-glendale-sex-assault


27 posted on 06/19/2014 9:35:20 AM PDT by Valpal1 (If the police can t solve a problem with violence, they ll find a way to fix it with brute force)
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To: skeeter
Its funny that some would expect an illegal alien to be honest about his real name.

They don't. It's just window dressing for unsuspecting citizens who do not think things through. They're here illegally, they have no proof of identity whatsoever. Of course they're not using their legal name from a foreign jurisdiction, and of course that name changes when expedient. That's known as an alias for people who are held to account under the law.

It's the same as accepting the notion that photo ID is just so darned hard to acquire that it's racist to expect it, when the true motivation is expediting vote fraud.

28 posted on 06/19/2014 9:45:19 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: MrB

Blame the victim, eh?
Even if she had warped views, an accusation eagerly presented without evidence, the prison was still responsible for her safety. She probably saw many armed guards as she was escorted to the testing room and knew that her presence there was officially approved and thought professionals would do their jobs. They can’t just take donut breaks, leaving their radios in the mens room, and expect visitors to fend for themselves. Without a guard standing in the room with her, how is she to know there’s no one around, no one listening, monitoring, standing by.


29 posted on 06/19/2014 9:54:16 AM PDT by ransomnote
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To: kjam22

A building full of rapists and child molesters? Lock down the prison and set it on fire!


30 posted on 06/19/2014 9:55:32 AM PDT by DeltaZulu
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To: rickmichaels

I have a solution to this problem. Lock it down, have the prison guards removed, and daisy cutter it to dust. Then not one of these criminals will ever commit another crime again.


31 posted on 06/19/2014 9:56:54 AM PDT by Durus (You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. Ayn Rand)
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To: liberalh8ter

“Makes me wonder if Jacob Harvey is really Juan Hernandez.”

NO! Juan Hernandez is that smarmy Mexican lawyer that FNC has on when they need a bleeding heart illegal immigration devotee. But again, these two are just different slices off the same turd.


32 posted on 06/19/2014 10:07:01 AM PDT by vette6387
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To: Black Agnes

That was my thought, that he’s Indian. Unfortunately, many Indians still live in squalor on their reservations. Some can integrate into society, but others get caught up in alcoholism, drug abuse and generationaly held low expectations. What got my attention is learning of the cruelty of his first sex offense, done with view of a two year old child. I wonder if he has FAS; Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. It doesn’t matter, in that he must still be punished and kept away from society.

Many in the black community have some of the same ‘loss of hope’ problems.
I had considered being trained to be a volunteer teacher’s aide for children of convicts, but decided even that association may be too risky.


33 posted on 06/19/2014 10:25:10 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: lee martell

You have a point about the loss of hope and the FAS issues.


34 posted on 06/19/2014 10:36:11 AM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: Tennessee Nana

Looks like a Native American to me.


35 posted on 06/19/2014 10:42:06 AM PDT by aft_lizard
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To: Tennessee Nana

Looks like a Native American to me.


36 posted on 06/19/2014 10:42:07 AM PDT by aft_lizard
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To: rickmichaels

Sounds planned.. to be left alone in that situation..
No doubt theres more to this story.. it was no accident..


37 posted on 06/19/2014 10:45:41 AM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: aft_lizard

Lots of Mexicans are native american, or Indians as we say. Lots of Apache, Inca, Aztec, etc. So don’t let anybody tell you our Indian population has declined. It hasn’t. It is at an all time high.


38 posted on 06/19/2014 10:55:15 AM PDT by olepap (Your old Pappy)
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To: olepap

Living in Arizona..believe it or not you can tell a difference between mexican natives and native americans. Mexican natives tend to be shorter and round faced while natives in AZ are slimmer faced with redder skin.


39 posted on 06/19/2014 10:58:13 AM PDT by aft_lizard
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To: lee martell

Unfortunately, many Indians still live in squalor on their reservations.
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Their choice, their consequences.


40 posted on 06/19/2014 11:02:25 AM PDT by S.O.S121.500 (Had ENOUGH Yet ? ........................ Enforce the Bill of Rights ......... It's the LAW !!!)
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