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A former Ottawa woman has been awarded $255,000 in damages for a wrongful arrest in 2008 that left her with broken bones and later naked for hours in a jail cell during a false imprisonment by Ottawa police.

Superior Court Justice Sylvia Corthorn found Roxanne Carr, then 39, should never have been arrested on Aug. 23, 2008 as she sat on the steps of the home she shared with an ex-boyfriend who wanted her out.

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“The course of the afternoon turned in a moment, when Roxanne stood up from the front steps to enter her home and retrieve her personal belongings,” Corthorn wrote. The judge took issue with virtually everything the police did from that point.

Because the first responding officers thought she was about to assault the man, she was thrown to the ground — boot to her face — handcuffed and dragged to a cruiser. Two bones in her right wrist were broken, either during the handcuffing or the application of a restraint device when she arrived. She was dragged again at the Elgin Street cellblock.