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Officer Bonita Bourke – Sussex County Sheriff’s Office

Written by CBKN76

In November 2014, attorney Bonita Bourke alleged that a Sussex County Sheriff’s Officer placed a handheld metal-detecting wand up her skirt while she was passing through jail security. The incident reportedly occurred in August 2014 when Bourke was visiting a client at the Keogh-Dwyer Correctional Facility in Newton. Bourke filed a lawsuit claiming that the officer placed the wand between her legs and moved it upward under her skirt, repeating the action after instructing her to spread her legs.

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