One
of the women assaulted by former Oklahoma City police officer Daniel
Holtzclaw said she feared for her life when he pulled her over last year
and forced her to perform a sex act on him.
"In
my mind, all I could think of was he was going to shoot me, he was
going to kill me," Jannie Ligons told reporters at a news conference
Friday. "I kept begging, 'Sir, don't make me do this, don't make me do
this, sir. Please. You're going to shoot me.'
"All
I could see was my life flashing before my eyes and the holster on his
right side," said Ligons, a grandmother whose daughters stood beside
her.
Holtzclaw told her he wasn't going to shoot her, but he made her perform oral sodomy in June 2014, Ligons said.
"All I can say is I was a victim, I was traumatized, I went to therapy, I had a stroke behind this," she said.
Ligons later went to police and media
outlets with the first complaint against Holtzclaw, she said.
Investigators later found a total of 13 alleged victims, all
African-American women
.
She was also one of
two victims who addressed the media a day after a jury found Holtzclaw
guilty of 18 of the 36 charges he faced, including four counts of rape
in the first degree and four counts of forced oral sodomy.
Ligons
has a pending federal civil lawsuit against Holtzclaw and the city of
Oklahoma City, filed on behalf of several victims. She accused Holtzclaw
of sexual assault and violating her state constitutional rights, and
accused the city of negligence.
Shandegreon
"Sade" Hill told reporters that Holtzclaw pulled her over in December
2013, and she was later taken to a hospital on the other side of town.
Once there, Holtzclaw raped her while she was handcuffed to a hospital
bed.
"No nurses, nobody came to check
on me," Hill said. "Me being in the room with the police, not expecting
to get violated the way I did, the way I was done, I just couldn't even
believe it. I was speechless. I was scared.
"I felt like I was in survivor mode, so I had to do what he was making me do," Hill added, with her parents beside her.
Hill has filed a state civil lawsuit against
Holtzclaw and Oklahoma City. She came forward as a victim after reading
a news item about Holtzclaw on Facebook last year, she said. (s:cnn)
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