JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- A former corrections officer who was raped inside the Jacksonville's jail library has filed a lawsuit seeking more than $1 million.

In May 2008, the victim was helping inmate Jonathan Tave. She said when she turned her back Tave attacked her and beat her and raped.

Five months after the incident, Tave pleaded guilty to the sexual assault of the Duval County corrections officer.

The victim said she might have had a chance if security had been better at the jail. There are no cameras and no other officers in the jail library.

The lawsuit contains page after page of why the former corrections officer now lives in constant fear.

"You don't get over it. It sticks with you. It's in you for life," the victim said.

She went to work at the jail in May of 2008 and she hasn't been back after the vicious rape inside the law library, where she was the clerk.

Prosecutors said Tave, a convicted murderer, got her alone and raped her for longer than an hour while using a shank, or makeshift knife, to keep her down.

"I did everything I could try to possibly do when he grabbed me. This guy is 6'3", 200 something pounds. I only turned around for a half a second to get a case that he asked for at the last minute. He lifted me off the ground ... so I was trying to breath."

The former officer said she had no gun, no Taser gun and no help. She said she was always the only one in the law library with the inmates, and she said there was no way for her to get out unless she was buzzed out.

She told Channel 4 that while she was being rapped Tave told her, "No one can help you."

Her attorney, Jay Howanitz, said Tave was right.

"She was stuck in a locked closet, pretty much, with a known violent offender that got to do what he wanted without anyone checking on her," Howanitz said.

The recently filed lawsuit alleges a series of policy and procedure failures that all contributed to the rape. The victim is suing the city, sheriff, undersherff, head of the jail and Tave.

Channel 4 tried to talk to sheriff's office officials and the city attorney about this lawsuit but they declined to comment.