This is a convoluted story, that you can read here. Seems this poor girl was held captive at her job by another, more senior female employee due to a prank caller posing as a police officer, who stated that the girl had stolen money and needed to be strip searched. The other employee then calls in her fiance to assist her. He then raped and further humiliated the employee by forcing her to do jumping jacks while naked.
Glad she won. What's even more interesting is that the woman who held the girl captive is ALSO suing, when it's her fiance who did this horrible thing. And the caller? He'd been plaguing McDonald's for years with these calls and McDonald's did nothing to warn employees.
It's just all-around tragic and stupid. The jury awarded Miss Ogborn $6.1 million, although she sued for $200 million. The prank caller was acquitted and the rapist got 5 years in prison. I'm sure he'll serve about 8 months.
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I saw this on Primetime and was sickened much like I am thinking of McDonald's food.
If there is a "worse" part of the ordeal, it is when Alan Friedman, the forensic psychologist hired and paid over $58,000 by McDonald’s Corp. testified that Miss Ogborn has “grown in some ways”.
Friedman goes on to say “It’s not the ideal way to come to new growth, but some people grow through their trauma,” .... "a battery of tests and his interview with the former McDonald’s employee show she is more assertive and self-reliant than she was before her April 9, 2004, ordeal".
Perhaps Miss Ogborn should pay McDonald's for her learning experience. Who knows where she would be today if she hadn't been held capitive, raped and assaulted for over two hours?
liz,
all you have to do is watch the outstanding documentary, SUPER-SIZE ME, by morgan spurlock, and you won't want to eat at mcdonald's, or *any* fast-food place, ever again!
mario
Marnie:
I know! It amazes me how anyone on the defense side of a rape trial will either a) blame the victim or b) tell the victim how "lucky" he/she was - that there was some perceived benefit from the experience. I am sure Miss Ogborn is thrilled with her "growth".
Mario:
I've seen it three times. Disgusting and edifying. What the steady diet did to his bloodwork and liver makes me cringe. Makes me glad I haven't been in about 10 years. Ava wanted a "Shrek" action figure - so we marched on in, bought the Happy Meal and chucked it all but the toy. She said "Mama, this is junky food here, right?". Right.
liz,
i'm about ten years older than you, and i can remember when, back in the day b4 there was a more enlightened attitude toward rape and its victims, many people actually believed that, unless a weapon was involved, a woman really couldn't be raped becuz, after all, "how can you thread a moving needle?"
an even cruder attitude said, "hey, as long as the woman is being raped, why doesn't she just lay back and enjoy it?"
no, i'm not kidding!
in the mid-70s, a tv-movie starring elizabeth montgomery (of "Bewitched") as a rape victim titled "A Case of Rape" became the first movie to address head-on the insensitivities and injustices that a rape victim underwent when the rapist was prosecuted.
one of the changes in the criminal justice system, aside from the shield laws, was the abolition of instructions to the jury by the judge that was once commonplace that stated, "rape is an accusation that is easy to make, but difficult to prove", becuz the instructions were so prejudicial to the victim.
mario
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