Monday, November 23, 2009
Woman Successful in KBR Sexual Assault Arbitration
From ABCNews.com:
Tracy Barker, who says a U.S. State Department employee sexually assaulted her in Iraq in 2005 has won $2.93 million in arbitration from KBR, the military contracting company that employed her. As ABC News exclusively reported, the federal government had refused to prosecute the man Barker says attacked her, even though the State Department recommended he be charged . . . .
KBR has challenged the award and wants it modified. "At no time has Ms. Barker's claim of rape ever been confirmed," said Heather Browne, the director of communications, in an e-mail to ABCNews.com.
"I was raped," Barker responded. "KBR knows that and they're wrong about that."
Makes you wonder why the feds refused to prosecute in the first place, no? We recovered a related story (no, this is not an isolated incident) back last June.
PS
https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/laborprof_blog/2009/11/woman-successful-in-kbr-sexual-assault-arbitration.html