Deputy investigated for treatment of inmate with MS

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -

A Broward Sheriff's Office detention deputy is under investigation for her treatment of inmate who suffers from multiple sclerosis.

Deputy Delia Daly-England has been removed from her position at the main jail and has had no contact with any inmates since the incident last year.

Lauren Militello, who suffers from multiple sclerosis and had sprained ankle, says she was grabbed by the neck, thrown to the ground and then dragged by her hair into a cell.

Militello was using crutches at the time of the incident.

Militello says once she was in the cell, she was beaten until she suffered a seizure.

Video obtained by Local 10 shows Daly-England grabbing Militello by the neck and dragging her by the hair.

"All of a sudden she just knocked me down and hit me," Militello told Local 10's Jeff Weinsier. "I didn't see it coming."

Militello says her encounter with Daly-England began in a secure area, outside the jail where inmates arrive. The area is known as the sally-port.

She says she was in so much pain from her MS, she sat on the ground as she waited to be booked for a violation of probation charge.

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