Ann Oldfather, who represents Louise Ogborn in a lawsuit against the fast-food giant, told jurors in opening statements that McDonald's withheld or hid evidence of someone pretending to be a police officer calling a restaurant and walking employees through a strip search and sexual abuse of female employees.
Ogborn sued the restaurant chain, claiming the company failed to warn her and other employees about a hoax caller who had already struck other McDonald's stores and other fast-food restaurants across the country.
David Stewart of Fountain, Fla., was acquitted last year on charges of impersonating an officer, soliciting sodomy and soliciting sexual abuse after Ogborn was searched, forced to strip and do calisthenics in a back room at the restaurant.
McDonald's didn't tell anyone about the other incidents during Stewart's trial, Oldfather said.
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- See earlier story at Strip-search suit to start this week.
- And here is an update on a later story! Strip-suit jury pool trimmed by eight
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