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KBR Says Jamie Leigh Jones Was Asking For It

(note: any reference to 2007 as the year Jamie was raped is incorrect. The year is 2005 and the quoted court documents are being amended )

Jamie Leigh Jones worked for KBR when she was brutally gang raped and imprisoned by co-workers and later rescued by her Texas-based Congressman. Today, KBR dropped its fight to deny her justice. But it’s not all good news.

KBR would like us all to know that, like all rape victims, Jamie Leigh Jones was asking for it, because she had a couple drinks and a pleasant conversation with the man who later raped her. In a press release on their website nauseatingly labeled “Facts About Jamie Leigh Jones Litigation,” they state

Also in Congressional testimony (and in several media interviews), Ms. Jones stated she only took two sips from a drink. However, several witnesses present at the social gathering outside the barracks observed her having several drinks and flirting with one particular firefighter whom she had socialized with the night before. She was also seen leaving the gathering with this firefighter.

The firefighter admits that he and Ms. Jones had consensual sex. However, he is certain that nobody else was present or had sex with Ms. Jones that night.

If you’d like to read Jones’ original filing, you can: she describes in detail being drugged (Oh, wait! Could that be why what she remembers drinking is different than what she was “seen” drinking and why she doesn’t remember leaving with her rapist?) and then waking up bloody and brutalized. To wit:

Tragically, on the evening on July 28, 2007, during her off-duty hours, Jamie was drugged (by what was believed to be Rohypnol) and brutally raped by, on information and belief, several Halliburton/KBR firefighters, including defendant, Charles Boartz, while she was in her room in the barracks. When she awoke the next morning still affected by the drug, she found her body naked and severely bruised, with lacerations to her vagina and anus, blood running down her leg, her breast implants were ruptured, and her pectoral muscles torn – which would later require reconstructive surgery. Upon walking to the rest room, she passed out again. When she returned to the living area, she found Charles Boartz lying in her bottom bed. She asked him what had happened, and he confessed to having unprotected sex with her. Jamie reported the rape to the [sic] Pete Arroyo, one of the operations personnal, who then took her to a KBR medical personnel.

KBR additionally asserts that because she didn’t immediately report the brutalizing rape, charge Boartz and only told Arroyo later that morning, she obviously wasn’t “really” raped.

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