Jenna Mae Palacios’ son, Robert, was released last week but she said he can still feel the pain and the trauma he suffered while in jail.
Palacios said they will file formal complaints against those who abused her son while serving his one-month jail term for assault and battery.
Robert Palacios, 21, in a telephone interview said he was requesting the jail guards to move him to another area on June 17 because one of his co-inmates was threatening to harm him.
He said the jail guards ignored his plea.
Mrs. Palacios, in a separate interview, said her son was so upset when the jail guard turned down his request that he made an obscene gesture.
She said the jail guards then pinned her son down to the floor, cuffed him and repeatedly slammed him against the wall before he was transferred to the isolation room where the guards slapped him in the face.
The slapping, she said, made his son’s ear problems worse and when the jail guards brought him to the hospital, there was fluid coming out of his ear.
Mrs. Palacios said her son was granted home furlough on June 20 but was told not to file any complaint about what had happened.
Mrs. Palacios said she will not allow those who abused his son to get away with it.
She said her son should not have been punished harshly for “giving the finger.”
Her son, she added, is willing to file a complaint against his abusers.
