A shelter for adolescents in southern Illinois is suing the local sheriffs office for what it describes as an unprovoked attack by two police officers on four children, three of whom were tasered, and one of whom was threatened with sodomy by a sheriffs deputy. The Southern Thirty Adolescent Center near Mount Vernon, IL, filed the lawsuit on behalf of three children in its custody, who the lawsuit says were tasered by Jefferson County sheriffs deputies who had been called to help subdue two misbehaving children, aged 11 and 12. Neither of those children were among those who were tasered during what one news service described as a police rampage. The incident took place on July 4, 2008. The federal lawsuit was filed in an East St. Louis court on Friday. In the suit the children are named only by their initials: BB, RE, and ZP According to the legal filing, quoted in the Mount Vernon Register, one deputy physically pushed RE towards his bunk and shocked him repeatedly with a taser. RE was tased multiple times to multiple locations on his person, including, but not limited to, his neck. Deputy Bowers shouted to BB to lie down in his bunk and physically forced him to lie down. Without physical provocation and/or physical gestures from BB, Deputy Bowers held BB down on his bed and shocked him repeatedly with a taser. While he was tasing BB, Deputy David Bowers threatened to sodomize BB As a result of this repeated and excessive tasing, BB urinated and defecated himself. Deputy ...