Remember Ohio, where they brutally tortured
Hope Steffey? Another Ohio woman was victimized by a cop there. The video footage from the police cruiser shows Heidi Gill, 38, crawling on the ground being electrocuted again and again by Warren, Ohio, officer Rich Kovach who stands over her kicking her, shoving her with his foot, barking intelligible orders at her. She screams in terror trying desperately to crawl away from her tormentor.
"I've never been electrocuted," she told CNN's "American Morning" "I didn't know what this was. And I really didn't think this pain was ever going to stop. It was nonstop."
Heidi Gill said she was trying anything to get away "so I could live." Watch her describe the Taser treatment in the cnn video.
Placed in the back seat of the police car, Heidi feebly tried to kick a window out to escape. "At this point, I had been Tased for so long and just drug around by my handcuffs. I was terrified of this man. He was no longer a police officer to me."
The cop got out of the car opened the door and shot Heidi again with the tazer gun delivering electro shock after electro shock into the terrified trapped woman. She screamed and begged for mercy. Later the cop told Heidi to get out of the car and go to a different police car. To the horrified amazement of onlookers, as she walked to the other car the cop delivered another long 50,000 volt electric charge into her body for no apparent reason, knocking her off her feet and to the ground. She was rendered unconscious either by the fall or by the cumulative affect of being electrocuted over and over and over.
In December, Richard Kovach, a 13-year member of the Warren Police Department, was fired. The patrol officer was terminated for conducting an illegal search when he knew the man, Tim Brown II, was not a suspect in a murder investigation. Ironically, the illegal arrest did not receive the attention of Kovach’s August arrest of Heidi Gill. Kovach was put on paid administrative leave - vacation, for 60-days for the brutal life threatening electro shock torture of Heidi Gill, but was never actually punished for it.
Heidi Gill was left psychologically scarred and physically impaired. She has suffered swelling of the brain and vision problems. The pants she was wearing had thirty-two separate electric burn holes in them. There is reason to believe that she was subjected to many more than seven, 50,000 volt electric shocks as claimed by the Ohio police.