KBR Employee Says She Was Raped and Beaten By Fellow KBR Employee in Iraq

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Source: ABC News

Anna Mayo's Lawsuit Is The Latest In A Series Against Military Contractor

Another female ex-employee of KBR has come forward to claim that she was raped while working for the military contracting company in Iraq.

According to a lawsuit filed in federal court in Houston Wednesday, Anna Mayo was working at KBR's facility in Balad in November 2009 when she was assaulted by an unnamed rapist who worked for KBR. She charges that she was choked unconscious with a rope, beaten and raped. The suit seeks damages from KBR and from KBR subsidiary Service Employees International Inc., the contractor that employed Mayo from 2008 to 2009.

Without releasing the name of the victim, an Army spokesman confirmed that the military has investigated an alleged sexual assault that occurred at the time and place specified in Mayo's suit.

In 2009, Tracy Barker won a $3 million judgment against KBR in arbitration over an alleged sexual assault in 2005 at a KBR-run camp in Iraq. A lawsuit filed by Jamie Leigh Jones alleging that she was gang-raped at a different facility in 2005 is still pending.

Attorney Todd Kelly, who filed the new complaint on behalf of Mayo and also represents Jones, said that up to 20 women have contacted his office alleging sexual harassment or assault while working for the contractor or at KBR installations overseas. "From the stories that I am hearing from the women that are coming back," said Kelly, "and stories that I have heard from men that have reported these incidents, there does not appear to be any change in how KBR treats these victims or disciplines their employees."

KBR spokeswoman Heather Browne said that the company takes Mayo's allegations very seriously, and that "a thorough investigation is underway," but that the alleged assailant in the case was not a KBR employee.

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1. Is KBR in Iraq solely to rape their own employees?

I've heard about their shoddy work, but man, their guys get to work when it's the business of sexual assault.

What are we paying these guys to do again?

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3. Nope. They're actually there to commit other crimes and kill witnesses to these crimes too.

[hardtravelin]

6. KBR fills the gap for a shortage of military support personnel

In Iraq and Afghanistan, KBR employees are the cooks, electricians, carpenters, laundry workers, truck drivers, etc.

The "contractors" that most people associate with that word, work for other companies.

I was actually surprised by the number of women KBR workers I saw in Afghanistan. There's quite a few. They mainly work in the dining facilities.

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2. K&R -- for later --

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4. K&R

[Doctor_J]

5. KBR is no more subject to any laws than is BP

I wish I was a Repuke donor so I could rape, kill, torture, terrorize, and rob without repercussion.