[Guest post by DRJ]

Don Surber is madder than a wet hen at Halliburton/KBR about Jamie Leigh Jones:

“A gang-rape victim tells all to ABC. It is sickening.

This made the Drudge, and it made me sick. Jamie Leigh Jones, now 22, of Houston, said she was gang-raped while working for Halliburton in Baghdad.

On top of that, she was housed in a container and told not to report the rape or she would lose her job.

She also was warned that if she left Iraq for medical treatment, she said, “Don’t plan on working back in Iraq. There won’t be a position here, and there won’t be a position in Houston.”

Somebody screwed up, terribly, and someone should pay.”

The Houston Chronicle reports Congress wants an investigation:

“In June, the Houston Chronicle reported that the male suspects in the alleged rapes were not prosecuted.

[Houston Congressman Ted] Poe said Congress could have hearings on the Jones case and others as early as January. In the letter Conyers and Poe sent Tuesday, they ask the Justice Department whether it can investigate and prosecute crimes by U.S. civilians in Iraq under the Military Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Act.

Jones’ family called Poe for help after Jones said she was held against her will in a KBR storage unit following the attack at Camp Hope in Baghdad. Investigators freed Jones after Poe contacted the U.S. State Department.

Jones is one of at least four women who have filed federal lawsuits against KBR and its former parent company Halliburton, both based in Houston, following allegations of rape or sexual harassment.

According to her lawsuit filed in May, Jones awoke with bruises on her body, blood on her genital area and ruptured breast implants after being drugged the night before. L. Todd Kelly, Jones’ attorney, said a rape kit taken after her attack confirmed DNA samples from a man found in her bed as well as multiple unknown males. Kelly said the rape kit was lost after Army investigators turned it over to KBR officials.”

It looks like Justia.com has posted the pleadings in this case. Based on my cursory review, Halliburton/KBR asserts multiple defenses but apparently concedes Jones was raped in Iraq. It also looks like Halliburton/KBR asserts that Jones’ employment contract requires claims against her employer must first be submitted to arbitration, but Jones may have sued before arbitration was completed.

In any event, I think we’ll be hearing more about this case.

H/T Instapundit.

– DRJ

Source: Jamie Leigh Jones vs Halliburton: You Be the Judge

                        

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