The family of a former Gasconade County deputy who
hanged himself while jailed on sexual assault charges filed in a federal
wrongful death suit.
The
Associated Press reported that the wife of Marty Rainey and her children filed
the wrongful death suit Friday, June 2, in federal court. The suit alleges that
Ste. Genevieve County Jail officials deprived the former Gasconade County
deputy of his right “to be protected from known risks of suicide.”
Rainey
died March 25, 2016, in his cell after hanging himself. The coroner’s report
says Rainey made a noose out of a torn sheet tied to a “bolt on a hook in his
cell.”
Rainey was accused of sexually abusing women and
enticing a minor into prostitution.
Rainey
also had worked as a police officer in Hermann and Rosebud.
He
was being held awaiting trial on a series of state and federal charges
involving a series of sexual assaults on women and one 17-year-old girl.
The
suit names the county and various officials. A lawyer for the defendants
declined to comment, the AP reported.
The
St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that Rainey, who was suffering from PTSD and
had been deemed a suicide risk by federal court staffers, was not given a
proper mental health screening, was not allowed out of the “extreme isolation”
of his cell for exercise and recreation and was not checked on as spelled out
in regulations, the suit says.
The county and various officials are named in the
suit.
Jail
staff discovered him the next morning.
Rainey
had been placed in a holding cell by himself, for his own protection.
Rainey
died March 25, 2016, in his cell after hanging himself with a torn sheet
attached says.
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