I remember when this happened. Thie oddest part is how long she went along with this charade before realizing she was being duped.
GUILTY KY - Fake cop orders strip search, sexual assault of McDonalds employee, 2004
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I saw this case covered on the news a while ago, and it was on 20/20 tonight. That girl had to have zero self-image if she did all that. I'm not blaming her at all, but I can say my daughter would have walked out if she had been directed to do those things by her boss. Hopefully she can overcome this and get on with her life. I guess the money might help a little...
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I watched the story on 20/20 tonight. Am glad she was awarded the money. It will not make everything go away, she'll always have the memories of basicly being tortured and sexually assalted. WTF was that manager thinking, the tape clearly showed this teen clinging to her in tears. The manager was fired and had to be on probation yet she also won over 1 mil in her suit against McDonalds! I don't understand that part at all.
Yes thank heaven for the maint. man, he was the only adult there with any sense, the sick perv on the phone would have been telling him to start assaulting her also. What a shame he did not know from the beginning what was going on inside that office over 3 hours earlier.
They showed a map of the U.S. with many states marked where this hoax was done, it makes me so mad the perv making the calls was not punished. It also made me mad to hear how McDonalds had an expert testify how the experience made the girl stronger, ughhhhh how sick is that?
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Yes thank heaven for the maint. man, he was the only adult there with any sense, the sick perv on the phone would have been telling him to start assaulting her also. What a shame he did not know from the beginning what was going on inside that office over 3 hours earlier.
They showed a map of the U.S. with many states marked where this hoax was done, it makes me so mad the perv making the calls was not punished. It also made me mad to hear how McDonalds had an expert testify how the experience made the girl stronger, ughhhhh how sick is that?
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This is too close to home for me....the McD's where it happened is a hop, skip and a jump away from me!
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To me there are several things going on all at once here. First the man that did all of this over the phone supposedly...he was smart to leave such a vague trail. He is evil slime and he will be caught up with at some future point for something else.
The fiance is the truly guilty person here and he should be the one that financially compensates the girl.
And no, if it were being viewed that way she wouldn't be awarded millions. She got millions based on that lawyers rule of "go for the deepest pocket." Jurors dont mind awarding huge sums to individuals who are suing businesses. After all, they have plenty of money, right? Jurors seem unaware that the true cost trickles right down to the consumer as the "companies" are just adding it to the cost of operating.
The managers lawyer sued the deepest pocket also.
As for the girl, maybe she was intimidated into the strip search, I can allow for that. But she at age 18 would know that being asked to perform oral sex was outside all boundaries. Why she stayed put at that point is a lack of personal common sense on her part. Maybe she was scared, maybe her paretns didn't raise her right and on and on the rationalizations can go. The point is none of that had anything to do with McDonalds.
The fiance is the truly guilty person here and he should be the one that financially compensates the girl.
And no, if it were being viewed that way she wouldn't be awarded millions. She got millions based on that lawyers rule of "go for the deepest pocket." Jurors dont mind awarding huge sums to individuals who are suing businesses. After all, they have plenty of money, right? Jurors seem unaware that the true cost trickles right down to the consumer as the "companies" are just adding it to the cost of operating.
The managers lawyer sued the deepest pocket also.
As for the girl, maybe she was intimidated into the strip search, I can allow for that. But she at age 18 would know that being asked to perform oral sex was outside all boundaries. Why she stayed put at that point is a lack of personal common sense on her part. Maybe she was scared, maybe her paretns didn't raise her right and on and on the rationalizations can go. The point is none of that had anything to do with McDonalds.
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That's what is strange - it required very gullible people.
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i must agree.......
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I can't believe this whole story...I have lost a friend over this case....She sent out a hysterical email demanding a boycott of McDonalds because of the lack of notification of every employee about this and what the therapist working for the defense said on the stand.
I disagreed with her completely that McDonalds should eat a huge verdict in this case...or be boycotted...I did think a few million for her "therapy" might be warranted. But I think McD's was only about 5% liable.
I disagreed with her completely that McDonalds should eat a huge verdict in this case...or be boycotted...I did think a few million for her "therapy" might be warranted. But I think McD's was only about 5% liable.
I can see why the girl went along with it because there is a lot of sexual abuse that goes on without a gun pointed at the victims head. Especially when it is an authority figure and/or adult doing the abusing. By the time the sexual abuse and degrading acts started she was naked (had her clothes taken out of the room) and without a phone or car keys. Where was she going to go? If she did run out of the room naked and screaming in the middle of the restaurant the managers probably would have shoved her back in the room since they believed she was to be kept there by orders of the police and their supervisors.
It is a really sad story but with that being said I think that the supervisor and her fiance are most to blame. I am left wondering why the jury award her 1 million dollars. If someone tells you to abuse (or even strip search )someone yourself you don't do it...even if it is a REAL police officer is standing right in front of you. They should have kept her back there with clothes in tact and said they would wait for the police to show up if they believed the guy was a real police officer. JMHO.
I did have a huge problem with McDonalds defense though that the girl benefited from the sexual abuse because the experience made her stronger. Also that the mental health issues she is dealing with are from the fact that she is talking about the sexual abuse... and not from being sexually abused. Hmmm...I hope no one on the jury was personally offended by their defense. I had my mouth hanging open while watching it. IMO They could have kept to the facts (That corporate had nothing to do with their employees criminal actions and that the strip search was in clear violation of their policies) and not had to go there.
It is a really sad story but with that being said I think that the supervisor and her fiance are most to blame. I am left wondering why the jury award her 1 million dollars. If someone tells you to abuse (or even strip search )someone yourself you don't do it...even if it is a REAL police officer is standing right in front of you. They should have kept her back there with clothes in tact and said they would wait for the police to show up if they believed the guy was a real police officer. JMHO.
I did have a huge problem with McDonalds defense though that the girl benefited from the sexual abuse because the experience made her stronger. Also that the mental health issues she is dealing with are from the fact that she is talking about the sexual abuse... and not from being sexually abused. Hmmm...I hope no one on the jury was personally offended by their defense. I had my mouth hanging open while watching it. IMO They could have kept to the facts (That corporate had nothing to do with their employees criminal actions and that the strip search was in clear violation of their policies) and not had to go there.
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Docuseries on Netflix about it.
"Don't Pick Up the Phone"
A man pretending to be a police officer called up as many as 100 fast food restaurants in 32 states over 12 years and induced managers to strip search young employees on the grounds they had stolen money from customers or committed other crimes. New Netflix docuseries 'Don't Pick Up the Phone' delves into infamous McDonalds hoax calls
"Don't Pick Up the Phone"
A man pretending to be a police officer called up as many as 100 fast food restaurants in 32 states over 12 years and induced managers to strip search young employees on the grounds they had stolen money from customers or committed other crimes. New Netflix docuseries 'Don't Pick Up the Phone' delves into infamous McDonalds hoax calls
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Bizarre story.
And an obviously guilty person who got away with it because all of the evidence was circumstantial.
The screw-up is on the Boston cop who over-zealously went for the interview confession when they should have been just putting surveillance on the caller until they were able to bust him in the act.
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