Posted on Mon, Jun. 1, 2009
The woman, then 30, did not want her name made public because she was embarrassed and afraid. She said she gripped the bed covers to her chest when one of the officers, whom she described as white, with a big belly, scruffy brown hair and a small goatee, forcibly yanked them from her.
"I kept telling him, 'I'm not dressed. I'm not dressed,' " said the woman. "But he was adamant about getting the covers off. The way he ripped my covers off, it was like vicious. I thought something was going to happen."
She reached for her clothes and turned to dress with her back to the cops, but the officer who pulled the covers ordered her to turn around. She stood naked before them. She was so scared that she put her clothes on inside out, she said.
The officers sent the woman downstairs, where she said she heard them chuckling in her bedroom. After they left, she found her personal items, including what she called "sex toys," strewn around the room. An item of her lingerie - a black leather teddy - had been taken from a drawer and laid out on top of her dresser, she said.
"It was creepy," she said. "They didn't physically touch me, but I felt violated."
She said that she never complained to Internal Affairs because she feared retaliation.
Police arrested her 35-year-old husband for allegedly selling a small amount of prescription pills. The case is pending. The woman was not charged. The couple has no prior criminal record.
"I'll never get that day out of my head," the woman said. "Ever since this happened, I don't sleep. I'm not comfortable in my house . . . I felt like all my dignity had been stripped from me."
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