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03-13-2008, 09:39 AM
A US woman says she had to drink her own urine after police locked her in a cell and forgot about her - for four days.
Adriana Torres-Flores was locked in a cell in the Washington County Courthouse, Arkansas, on a Thursday - and left until the following Monday.
She had nothing to eat or drink so drank her own urine. There was no bed or toilet. She slept on the floor with her head on a shoe.
Torres-Flores pounded on the steel door with her hands and feet, and yelled but nobody heard her, reports the Arkansas Democrat Gazette.
The building was closed all weekend so it was Monday morning before the bailiff who had put her in the holding cell, intending to have her taken to jail, opened the door and realised his mistake.
Jarrod Hankins, only two months into his job as bailiff, was too devastated to talk about it but Washington County Sheriff Tim Helder said he had been distracted by other duties.
"He's a broken man right now," Sheriff Helder said, promising a thorough investigation and new safeguards to prevent a similar occurrence.
Torres-Flores, 38, of Springdale, later appeared in court for a hearing relating to her December arrest on a charge of selling pirated music CDs at a local market.
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Adriana Torres-Flores was locked in a cell in the Washington County Courthouse, Arkansas, on a Thursday - and left until the following Monday.
She had nothing to eat or drink so drank her own urine. There was no bed or toilet. She slept on the floor with her head on a shoe.
Torres-Flores pounded on the steel door with her hands and feet, and yelled but nobody heard her, reports the Arkansas Democrat Gazette.
The building was closed all weekend so it was Monday morning before the bailiff who had put her in the holding cell, intending to have her taken to jail, opened the door and realised his mistake.
Jarrod Hankins, only two months into his job as bailiff, was too devastated to talk about it but Washington County Sheriff Tim Helder said he had been distracted by other duties.
"He's a broken man right now," Sheriff Helder said, promising a thorough investigation and new safeguards to prevent a similar occurrence.
Torres-Flores, 38, of Springdale, later appeared in court for a hearing relating to her December arrest on a charge of selling pirated music CDs at a local market.
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2766538.html?menu=