A female employee of Halliburton/KBR, Jamie Leigh Jones of Houston, says she was gang-raped by several male co-employees while working in Iraq. Medical tests confirmed the attacks, but the rape kits were mysteriously lost after being turned over to Halliburton "security officers."
Over two years later, no criminal charges have been brought nor are any likely due to an enormous loophole that has effectively left contractors in Iraq beyond the reach of United States law.
Jones recently filed a civil suit against Halliburton/KBR over the rapes. The defendants want to force Jones's claims into closed, private arbitration rather than let a jury hear the case and assess the damages. In recent testimony before Congress, employment lawyer Cathy Ventrell-Monsees said that Halliburton won more than 80 percent of arbitration proceedings brought against it.
It seems Halliburton is continuing to rape this poor young woman.
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