P.G. nurse jailed. Was it for calling News 5?

Just when we thought things were getting back to normal in Punta Gorda another event has taken place which suggests that the ancient practice of witch hunting is alive and well. Tuesday night around seven, Donna Reishus, an American volunteer nurse based in P.G. was detained by police and will remain in custody tonight. According to officer in charge, Superintendent Paul Wade, Reishus is under investigation and has not yet been charged. When asked what she is under investigation for, Wade says he is not at liberty to say. While the Superintendent remains tight lipped, sources close to the investigation indicate that the nurse’s crime was assisting News 5 in its own inquiry into allegations of police impropriety in the child exploitation case against Dennis Bruce, Amos Capps, and Lee Jones. Bruce and Capps are in remand in Hattieville prison awaiting trial, while Jones managed to leave the country prior to the filing of charges against him. Reishus, the fiancé of Jones, was among a number of Punta Gorda residents who questioned the behaviour of police in the investigation of the three men and brought the matter to the station’s attention. Although our reporters never did get to interview any of the family members of the young girls allegedly involved in the alleged sexual exploitation, one mother of a child in question today told News 5 via telephone that on Tuesday an officer of the Social Services Department told her that if she appeared on TV and spoke about the case it would “create a scandal” and she would “be arrested and her child taken away from her.” By seven Thursday night, after forty-eight hours in custody, Reishus must either be charged or released.