Editor,
I read a jury awarded a former McDonald's employee $6.1 million because she was forced to strip naked and was sexually assaulted by a manager's boyfriend. The backstory was a caller impersonating a police officer saying this woman stole from a customer and that he had the corporate office on
the phone.
Instead of verification, the assistant manager took the employee to the office and strip-searched her. When the manager needed to go back to work, she called her fiancé to watch the woman. The caller instructed this guy to spank her and force the woman to perform oral sex on him.
This man only got five years, and the assistant manager, Donna Summers, got probation. Are you kidding me? This man deserves death or at least life imprisonment with no parole. He committed a great horror upon someone based on a phone call from a guy pretending to be a police officer. Summers should at least get 10 years in prison for starting this nightmare. If she disappeared, I doubt she would be missed.
Walter Nix, the man who committed the assault, testified against the man accused of making the calls, a security guard in Florida named David Stewart. Nix's lawyer says the punishment was too harsh. Let me ask his lawyer, Kathleen Schmidt, this: How would she like it if she was the one being beaten and sodomized by some halfwit because some idiot on a phone told him to?
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Stewart was acquitted by a jury. It shows that the idea of jury of peers must be taken literally in some parts.
This woman is screwed up for life. McDonald's should, at the least, rewrite its handbooks because it is obvious the caller targeted fast-food restaurants where managers are often not very bright and go by the book to the tee. Without that book, they are lost.
Anyone who works in the fast-food trade should be wary of their not-so-bright superiors and always have a predetermined protocol to be ready to defend themselves against people such as Summers and her genius fiancé, Nix. As a matter of fact, prospective employees should always throw this incident in a prospective employer's face and ask how they have learned since 2004 to stop this type of incident from occurring.
Brandon Curtis
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