A Houston, Texas woman says she was gang-raped by Halliburton/KBR coworkers in Baghdad, and the company and the U.S. government are covering up the incident.
Jamie Leigh Jones, now 22, says that after she was raped by multiple men at a KBR camp in the Green Zone, the company put her under guard in a shipping container with a bed and warned her that if she left Iraq for medical treatment, she'd be out of a job.
"Don't plan on working back in Iraq. There won't be a position here, and there won't be a position in Houston," Jones says she was told.
I n a lawsuit filed in federal court against Halliburton and its then-subsidiary KBR, Jones says she was held in the shipping container for at least 24 hours without food or water by KBR, which posted armed security guards outside her door, who would not let her leave.
"It felt like prison," says Jones, who told her story to ABC News as part of an upcoming "20/20" investigation. "I was upset; I was curled up in a ball on the bed; I just could not believe what had happened."
Finally, Jones says, she convinced a sympathetic guard to loan her a cell phone so she could call her father in Texas.
As a father of a twenty year old daughter I can only imagine what receiving this phone call must have done to this father. I would have been out of my mind with worry.
I think as Americans we thought our country could never stoop to the kind of attitude toward rape victims like the ones in Saudi Arabia.
But if that was true then this women should be able to receive justice against Halliburton. So let's pay attention to see if this is the outcome, because if it is not then we know that justice has truly died in this country.
unreal....good for her for coming forward- we have a great justice dept....lordy....and yes, her poor dad....
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