Let us not forget what Allen County’s chief megalomaniac had to say about Lima Police Department officers back when CNN brought the camera to town:

“I’m biased and you know our agency … we’re a sheriff’s office, but we work actively in the city of Lima. The reception of our officers in the city of Lima is very good. Part of the reason for that is we hire an older officer, a more mellow officer, one that is more mature and one not so quick to make decisions.”

Let’s see what the front page of The Lima News says on Wednesday:

“OTTAWA - An Allen County sheriff’s deputy with a history of violence that once cost the county $75,000 to settle a lawsuit has been sentenced to 10 days in jail for assaulting his 6-year-old daughter.

Zane Ditto is scheduled to report to the Putnam County jail Friday, Sheriff Jim Beutler said.

Ditto was convicted of aggravated menacing, a reduction from the charge of domestic violence. Both are misdemeanors.

Ditto was given a 180-day jail sentence but the judge suspended all but 10 days. Ditto was fined $500 with $300 suspended. Both suspensions of jail and the fine were on the condition Ditto stay out of trouble, serve one year probation, complete anger management counseling and perform 20 hours community service.

Ditto remains employed at the Allen County Sheriff’s Office as a deputy in corrections in the jail. Sheriff Dan Beck said he would collect information on the case, review it and make a determination on whether to punish Ditto.” 

Big surprise here: Republican justices of the Ohio Supreme Court find yet another instance where the state trumps the family. OK, so there’s nothing in the U.S. or Ohio constitutions saying your family has a right to get your body parts back upon your death — need there be? — but these six justices couldn’t find anything in common law that says as much? Religion be damned in Lima resident and Ohio Supreme Court Justice Robert Cupp’s view, as well as that of five of his court colleagues. The Associated dPress reports that these six justices have determined that the state, not your family, has a right to your body parts.

Ohio court: Relatives have no right to body parts

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio Supreme Court says family members don’t have a right to a relative’s brain, heart and other body parts removed by a coroner for forensic testing.

In a 6-1 decision released Thursday, the high court said there is nothing in the U.S. Constitution, the state Constitution or common law that says organs must be returned to a family.

The ruling is a defeat for the parents of a man who drowned when his car went into a pond. They had sued a coroner near Cincinnati, saying they had the right to bury their son with his brain intact instead of it being permanently removed at his autopsy.

The case had drawn international attention for its ramifications to coroners, crime investigators and followers of religions that espouse the importance of burying the whole body.s