Sioux Lookout OPP Facing Lawsuit

The father of a 14-year-old girl from Lac Seul First Nation is suing the Sioux Lookout OPP, claiming his daughter was shocked with a Taser while in jail.
The father alleges she was stunned because she wouldn’t stop scratching at the paint inside her jail cell.
The girl, identified only as Jane Doe, was being held inside the cell last July for undisclosed reasons.
Court documents say she was not intoxicated, hysterical, excited or presenting a danger in any way.
The lawsuit alleges two officers went in the cell, “violently” pulled her to the floor and applied the Taser to her thigh for three
to five seconds.
None of the allegations have been proven in court.
Her family wants $500,000 in damages, claiming the incident left her with numbness in her leg and “ongoing mental distress.”
He father is expected to address the media Tuesday in Kenora.