Kenneth Deshun Woods a former Galveston police officer, currently serving 40 years in prison is accused of raping and violating the civil rights of Jeanna Sue Bouras a Dickinson native.
Besides Woods the Galveston Police Department are co-defendants in this case and Bouras has filed the suit before the Southern District of Texas. Since inception the lawsuit has been updated about 10 times with U.S. District Court Judge Vanessa D.Gilmore which states that Bouras was alone on Galveston's East Beach when Woods, ordered her to get inside the police car after which Ms. Bouras was taken to a secluded area of the beach and sexually assaulted her.
Bouras claims she was coerced into committing several sexual acts and left abandoned on the beach. Bouras then informed her boyfriend of the situation and subsequently filed a complaint at Galveston.
An investigation ensued in which Woods was successfully tried, and found guilty of the aggravated assault and sexual harassment.
Woods was suspended from his job and peace officer license and is incarcerated in the Texas Department of Corrections' Beto Unit in Palestine.
According to the law suit Bouras states the incident has shattered her to death.
The city is blamed for its "failure to properly train, discipline, investigate or otherwise control its employee Woods."
The police department is really ashamed for "implementing a policy of ignoring all the complaints of the plaintiff.
Bouras, who is represented by Houston attorney Joseph W. Walker, seeks punitive and exemplary damages and a jury trial.
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