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JACKSONVILLE, FL — A new police report says Jonathan Tave held a corrections officer prisoner in the jail law library and sexually attacked her for an hour.

The victim told police he stripped her naked, assaulted her, let her get dressed — and then did it all again a second time.

The details contained in the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office report are very disturbing.

The horrifying report says Tave held a “handmade knife up against her throat” as she worked in the law library.

She went for her radio, but Tave stopped her “by pulling her away from it.”

He pulled her into one of the library aisles, and “pulled all her clothes off of her, ripping her uniform shirt in the process.”

With the “knife to her throat,” the report says Tave forced her to the floor and raped her… and then forced her to perform “oral sex” on him.

She managed to reach her pepper spray, but Tave “grabbed it away from her.”

She pulled her “cell phone” from her pants on the floor, but Tave smashed it, the report says.

She told police “that when he was done, he dressed her back up in her uniform, and told her to relax”.

But he got angry again and “told the victim that he had nothing to lose.”

“He dragged her to the window area of the room and pulled her clothes off of her again,” the report says.

She told police he raped her again. And, again, he forced her to perform oral sex at knifepoint.

All the while, he “beat the victim on her face with his fists.”

After the second attack, the report says he “dressed the victim again and demanded her jail keys.” Then tried to hide evidence and clean the area.

When Tave left, the officer ran to the control room. Tave was able to ride an elevator down to the mezzanine floor, before officers grabbed him.

The officer told police the attack lasted an hour.
Tave now faces 11 new potential charges:

- four sexual battery charges
- aggravated battery on a law enforcement officer
- kidnapping during a felony
- possession of a concealed weapon by a convicted felon
- two counts of evidence tampering
- two counts of depriving an officer of means of protection or communication

All of those potential charges are felonies.

The State Attorney’s Office will decide which of those charges to formally file.

The head of the State Attorney’s Special Assaults Unit, Julie Schlax, told First Coast News that she will personally handle the case.

She says she expects to file several charges that carry a maximum penalty of life in prison.

Tave is set to go to trial in less than two months on murder charges. If he’s convicted, he will automatically be sentenced to life in prison.

Source: First Coast News

Additional information at News4Jax.

So, a guard can be beaten and raped for an hour? If she’d have been killed, I wonder how long it would have taken before anybody would have noticed?