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Ky. court upholds $6M verdict in strip search case

McDonald's

by Joann Dickson

Posted on November 20, 2009 at 3:03 PM

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- A Kentucky appeals court upheld a $6.1 million award to a woman who was forced to strip in a McDonald's restaurant office after someone called posing as a police officer.
  

The court ruled Friday that McDonald's Corp. must pay former employee Louise Ogborn, who was a victim in 2004 in one of a series of hoax phone calls made to fast-food restaurants across the country.
  

The ruling says that McDonald's failed to warn its employees about the hoax calls and that to reverse the verdict would cut against the weight of the evidence.
  

A message left for a McDonald's spokesman was not immediately returned Friday.
  

The Associated Press generally does not identify victims of sexual abuse. Ogborn's name, however, has appeared in previous newspaper and broadcast stories with her permission.
  

(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press.  All Rights Reserved.)
 

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nj442 said on November 20, 2009 at 5:30 PM

If you're stupid enough to allow your fast food manager to strip search you because of a phonecall, you deserve to be embarrassed. I mean come on, that is just crazy. Of course now the "victim" will never have to work again,

madmom said on November 22, 2009 at 6:24 PM

I'm glad they unheld the ruling, the manager totally disregarded Louise's rights as an American citizen when she confined her to the office and then had her stripped and kept her there bringing not only her boyfriend in but a maintenance man in to leave her alone with. Shame on the boyfriend and the manager and I hope the man who calls lives a miserable life. Thanks God for the maintenance man refusing to abuse the girl !!!!!