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McDonald's Strip-Search Case Victim Awarded $6.1 Million

posted October 6, 2007 - 2:26am
McDonald's Strip-Search Case Victim Awarded $6.1 Million

It was the shocking story — and unbelievable surveillance video — that riveted the nation. Today a jury in Bullitt County, Ky., awarded Louise Ogborn $5 million in punitive damages and $1.1 million in compensatory damages and expenses.

In 2004, Ogborn, then an 18-year-old McDonald's employee, was humiliated and forced to strip and then perform a sexual act in the back office during her workday.

This horrifying ordeal changed Ogborn's life forever and put McDonald's on trial for its alleged failure to warn employees that a hoax caller was on the loose. Ogborn was seeking $200 million in damages in the closely watched civil trial that concluded on 05 Oct.

Read more on this at URL
http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=3688563&page=1



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