We have blogged on this before and address it elsewhere in our website. It is all too familiar and simply awful:
$4.35m Settlement Reached In Rape Of Teenage McDonald’s Worker
The article references a devastating occurrence in Pennsylvania involving a minor/teenage girl raped by her manager while working at a McDonald’s. It resulted in the franchisee there having to pay big money to settle — a $4.35 million recovery as described in the article above.
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The problem is vulnerable, minor teenage girls are paired with older male managers at fast food restaurants, often working together late at night while cleaning up and closing down. There is no proper supervision. In this situation some male managers cannot resist engaging in sexually inappropriate conduct with minor, teenage girls working for them. Young girls cannot consent to any type of sex by adults. It is rape for an adult male to groom and have sexual contact with minors, even if the girl agrees to it. It is criminal. What happened according to the article is especially bad because it involves forcible rape of the young girl. It is also especially negligent conduct by the McDonald’s franchisee because the McDonald’s manager rapist had a prior sex abuse conviction. He never should have been hired, let alone paired to work with the young girl at the McDonald’s.
We have handled similar cases in Texas. Rape at such a young age causes devastating consequences to the victim. She will likely need millions of dollars in future psychiatric care, therapy and counseling. She may also become reluctant to work and thus will endure vocational harm. In our cases we typically hire a psychiatric life-care planner to chart out the future mental health expenses, and to offer opinions on the mental harm caused by the rapist and his employer. We also engage vocational experts. Millions of dollars in recoveries in these cases are possible and have been achieved by our firm.
If you or your child has been subject to this kind of devastating sexual misconduct, immediately call the police and obtain a SANE exam/rape kit. That cannot be stressed enough. DNA evidence is very helpful not only to convict the rapist, but also in the civil case. There may also be video evidence from the restaurant police can secure.
Then, contact the sexual abuse lawyers at Crowe Arnold & Majors, LLP. Again, we have handled cases in Texas similar to this, know what to do, and know how to act quickly to achieve the kind of justice you or your loved one deserves.
