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Stamford Marriott claims woman was negligent in her own rape.
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jaern3 months, 2 weeks ago
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A downtown hotel being sued by a woman raped at gunpoint in its parking garage is claiming she was careless, negligent and "failed to exercise due care for her own safety and the safety of her children and proper use of her senses and facilities," according to court documents.
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The victim's attorneys also argue the hotel has inadvertently identified her to acquaintances by asking them to testify.
This poor woman. I hope she is awarded a lot of money! -
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cowboygrandpa3 months, 2 weeks ago
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"The woman filed the lawsuit in May 2008, six months after Danbury native Gary Fricker, 56, was sentenced to 20 years in prison after a plea deal in the case.
On Oct. 10, 2006, Fricker stuck a handgun in the back of the then 40-year-old woman and forced her and her children, then 3 and 5, into their minivan as they left the hotel, according to court documents.
She let him go through her wallet and told him he could take it, but Fricker demanded she take off her clothes. Fricker sexually assaulted the woman for several minutes, pointing the gun at her and her children and threatening to sexually assault one of her children.
When another car pulled up, the woman screamed, and Fricker
fled. Police arrested Fricker near White Plains, N.Y., three days later, and he immediately confessed, police have said.
Fricker, a transient carpenter, had been arrested 20 times before and was wanted in Florida on an arson case, police have said.
The woman, identified in court papers only as Jane Doe, claims in the suit that Fricker had been in the hotel and garage acting suspiciously days before the attack, as well as the afternoon of the attack, and the hotel failed to notice him, apprehend him or make him leave. During the attack, security personnel did not see or stop him, the suit claims."
Money will not take away the sickness that this evil "man" thing did, nor will it help the mother and children to forget about the incident, for they will always recall where the money came from.
But losing the money will certainly cause the Hotel to enact beter security measures for their guests in their parking garages or Hotel areas.
The fact that he had been around for a few days would be a concern to me if I were on the jury. I would defintely wonder why nothing was done ?? -
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