Million Dollar Verdict Upheld For McDonald Employee who was Strip Searched
A Louisville Kentucky appellate court upheld a ruling that awarded a fast food employee $6 million dollars after she was wrongfully strip searched and sexually assaulted. Victim Louise Ogborn, then 18, was forced to strip naked when someoen called the McDonald’s she was working at pretending to be a police officer.
Ogborn received the call while on shift during which she was assaulted by Kentucky resident Walter Nix Jr., the fiance of an assistant manager who also worked there. Nix served a prison sentence of the assault. The man who actually placed the call, one David Stewart, was acquitted of all charges. Of note was the fact that many harassing hoax calls stopped shortly after Stewart, a Florida man, was arrested.
The Kentucky appellate court upheld the $6 million dollar judgement against McDonald’s Corp because officials knew about the series of hoax phone calls to restaurants around the US but failed to warn employees. They ruled that to reverse the decision would undercut the weight and validity of evidence in the case
Louise Ogborn fell victim to the call in 2004.
A McDonald’s spokesman and Ogborn’s attorney, Ann Oldfather, were contacted for reactions to the ruling. Neither returned messages and phone calls regarding the matter.
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