A 21-year-old woman said that sheriff’s deputies in Harris County, Texas, threw her to the ground and searched her vagina earlier this year in the parking lot of a Texaco gas station because they said they smelled marijuana in her car.
Charnesia Corley of Spring, Texas, said she was driving to the store on June 21 to buy something for her sick mother when she was stopped by a deputy, according to television station KTRK.
The deputy pulled her over for allegedly running a stop sign around 10:30 p.m., she told the television station.
Here’s what she and her attorney, Sam Cammack, told the Houston Chronicle happened next:
A male deputy pulled her over for allegedly running a stop sign. He said he smelled marijuana, handcuffed Corley, put her in his vehicle and searched her car for almost an hour. He didn’t find any pot, according to her attorney.
Returning to his car where Corley was held, the deputy again said he smelled marijuana and called in a female deputy to conduct a cavity search. When the female deputy arrived, she told Corley to pull her pants down, but Corley protested because she was cuffed and had no underwear on. The deputy ordered Corley to bend over, pulled down her pants and began to search her.
Then, according to Cammack, Corley stood up and protested, so the deputy threw her to the ground and restrained her while another female was called in to assist. When backup arrived, each deputy held one of Corley’s legs apart to conduct the probe.
KTRK reported that she was charged with resisting arrest and possession of marijuana, although the television station did not say where the marijuana was allegedly found.
“I feel like they sexually assaulted me! I really do. I feel disgusted, downgraded, humiliated,” Corley told the television station.
She told KTRK she plans to file a complaint with the sheriff’s department.
Watch the video, from KTRK, below:
