KBR’s don’t ask, don’t tell policy against rape victims

"Hear No Evil - See No Evil - Speak No Evil" KBR employees from Left to Right (L) Richard Harsey-Plumber-Camp Harper (C) Rick Solomon-Security Coordinator-Camp Harper (R) Eric Barnhart- Security Manager for T-Sites including Camp Harper (photo allegedly taken by William Risner Feb 2008)

Raped and Drugged at KBR, Woman Says

By CAMERON LANGFORD – Courthouse News Service – January 29, 2010

HOUSTON (CN) – At least two fellow workers drugged, raped and sodomized a paramedic working for Kellogg Brown and Root in Iraq, after KBR failed to warn her about the numerous sexual assaults that KBR employees had inflicted upon other women there, the woman says in a federal complaint.

The plaintiff was hired as a paramedic/medic in July 2007 and after her first assignment in Iraq was assigned to Camp Harper outside of Basra, where she says she was brutalized on Feb. 3, 2008.

She says she began to feel strange after drinking a screwdriver with some of her civilian colleagues after work that night on base. While she was incapacitated, she says William Risner, a KBR employee, led her to his room where Risner and a “special forces agent” identified only as “Jason” raped and sodomized her together, she says.

She recalls being anally penetrated by Jason, and screaming when this occurred. When she screamed, Mr. Risner quieted [the plaintiff] by putting his penis in her mouth. [The plaintiff] was sexually assaulted. At no time did she consent to the conduct of Defendant Risner or Jason. Defendant Risner and Jason then switched places, and [the plaintiff] recalls someone holding her legs up,” the complaint states.

The woman says that when she reported the rape to KBR officials, they subjected her to prolonged interrogation, forced her to sign false statements, and took away her company computer.

She seeks punitive damages from KBR, Risner and “John Doe Rapists,” for negligence, false imprisonment, assault and battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress.

She is represented by Kell Simon with the Ross Law Group of Austin.  (Click HERE for original article)

The above photo was taken after the alleged rape at Camp Harper, a small T-Site near Camp Adder in Tallil, Iraq in February 2008 and appeared as evidence at a hearing of the U.S Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on April 9, 2008 where Lawn Leamon testified about her ordeal.

The photo was allegedly taken by accused rapist William Risner after he and an accomplice allegedly raped and assaulted Dawn Leamon on February 3, 2008 Super Bowl Sunday. Included in the photo are KBR employees from Left to Right (L) Richard Harsey-Plumber-Camp Harper (C) Rick Solomon-Security Coordinator-Camp Harper  (R) Eric Barnhart- Security Manager for T-Sites including Camp Harper. I do not know if these people still work for KBR and if so where.

The photo supposedly was intended to send a message to Ms. Leamon that “no one heard anything, no one saw anything and no one was going to say anything.”

It’s very disturbing to me that two KBR Security professionals, one a manager over the entire area, are involved in this shameful display. Security are the people tasked with protecting the employees and investigating the crimes. This is just another example of the septic management that was systemic theater wide at KBR.

You can read the transcript of Dawn Leamon’s testimony given before the Committee on Foreign Relations HERE.

For a copy of the complaint “Dawn Leamon vs KBR” filed January 27, 2010 click HERE.

Ms Sparky

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