Oklahoma Inmate Who Filed Lawsuit Over Allegations of “Baby Shark” Jail Torture Found Dead in His Cell

Iesha September 14, 2022 News Leave a comment

This past weekend, an Oklahoma inmate that claimed he was tortured with the “Baby Shark” song in 2019 was found dead in his cell.

On Sunday, Oklahoma County Detention Center officials said that 48-year-old John Basco was found unresponsive.

According to the 2021 lawsuit, the inmates were “forced to listen to the song over and over while physically restrained in the attorney visitation room” at a volume “so loud that it was reverberating down the hallways.”

Basco’s cause of death is still unknown, but a jail spokesperson states, “One of the possibilities being investigated is that it was a drug overdose.”

However, Cameron Spradling, Basco’s lawyer, told Rolling Stone that he finds Basco’s death suspicious.

“Two plus two doesn’t make four,” Spradling said. “It was very fortuitous to this jail and those detention officers that John Basco’s dead. … There is a criminal case and a federal civil rights case pending against three former detention officers, including a longtime lieutenant. One of the ‘Baby Shark’ Torture Victims is conveniently dead within three days of his arrival.”