[Doc Holliday]

She was arrested for a 2003 juvenile arrest. A felony charge in FL is any crime over 250.00.

According to MSNBC

The 21-year-old woman was released Monday only after attorney Vic Moore reported her plight to the local media.


They knew at the jail that she had to have the second pill, the jail worker refused to give it to her due to religious values. She was denied medical treatment.

Yet the Chief of Police say that as soon as they found out that she had been arrested they began the process of trying to get her released.

The police department in 2002 issued a legal opinion under then-Police Chief Bennie Holder that advised against arresting victims of violent crime on outstanding misdemeanor warrants.

"The goal of the policy is to avoid further traumatizing the victim of a serious crime," Assistant City Attorney Kirby Rainsberger wrote at the time. Officers should use discretion to balance "the severity of the injury suffered by the victim compared to the seriousness of the crime specified in the warrant," he wrote.

The policy does not advise whether police should arrest crime victims wanted on felony charges.

"It's rare in police work that someone isn't arrested on a felony warrant, but you always want to have compassion for a victim," police spokeswoman Laura McElroy said Monday. "This may be a case where we need to revise our policy."

Police supervisors did not learn the woman's circumstances until early Monday, after inquiries from the media and the woman's attorney, Virlyn "Vic" Moore III of Venice. At that point, police worked with Circuit Judge Walter Heinrich to grant her bail: $4,585 that a Sarasota County court said was unpaid in a 2003 auto theft and burglary case, McElroy said.

Moore disputed that the money was unpaid, calling it a "technical violation." The woman thought the matter had been resolved, he said.

Florida

REFUSAL FOR RELIGIOUS OR MEDICAL REASONS.–The provisions of this section shall not be interpreted so as to prevent a physician or other person from refusing to furnish any contraceptive or family planning service, supplies, or information for medical or religious reasons; and the physician or other person shall not be held liable for such refusal.

But it also says this:

ACCESS TO SERVICES; PROHIBITIONS.–Except as otherwise provided in this section, no medical agency or institution of this state or unit of local government shall interfere with the right of any patient or physician to use medically acceptable contraceptive procedures, supplies, or information or to restrict the physician-patient relationship.


“Obviously, any policy that allows a sexual battery victim to spend a night in jail is a flawed policy,” police spokeswoman Laura McElroy said. “So our city attorney is writing a new policy right now.

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So she was raped, arrested and denied her prescribed medicine, held in jail for 36 hours.

Also it was reported the the officer didn't want to arrest her, but was ordered to.


The arrest was bad enough, but to prevent her from receiving the medicine is barbaric, and unexcusable.

I believe that we all have a right to our beliefs, but no one has a right to force them on someone else.