Evidence disappears from rape kit of woman who claimed that KBR contractors raped her

[ck4829]

Jamie Leigh Jones, 23, said she was gang-raped inside Baghdad's Green Zone in July 2005 while she was working for the Halliburton subsidiary KBR, which has support contracts with the US military.

Appearing before a hearing on the enforcement of laws to protect Americans working in Iraq, Ms Jones said that on her fourth day in Baghdad some co-workers, who she described as Halliburton-KBR firefighters, invited her for a drink. "I took two sips from the drink and don't remember anything after that," she said.

The next morning she woke up groggy and confused, and with a sore chest and blood between her legs. She reported the incident to KBR and was examined by an army doctor, who said she had been repeatedly raped vaginally and anally.

An army doctor collected DNA evidence, including vaginal swabs and scrapings from her fingernails, and placed them in a box for evidence. Ms Jones said the doctor gave the box to a KBR security officer but it went missing. A State Department diplomatic security agent recovered the kit in May 2007, but the doctor's notes and photographs are now inexplicably missing, undermining any chances of bringing the case through the criminal courts.

http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/gangraped-then-locked-in-van-iraq-worker-says/2007/12/20/1197740465943.html

[Thickasabrick]

1. Well of course it did.....we should just pay our taxes to KBR.

What's even more pathetic is that we don't hear a word from our media - it has to come from the age. I'm so sorry for that woman but I don't think she'll ever see justice in this case.

[Cooley Hurd]

2. American history, as it has been taught, is known for its glaring omisions...

...I hope this very dark period has the light shone brightly on it, as a manual on WHAT America Should NEVER be.

:cry:

[Submariner]

3. Arrrgggghhhhh

Glad it wasn't me. I'd get a gun and hunt them all down like in one of those Clint Eastwood movies. Case closed.

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. That poor woman

:cry:

And :mad: :nuke: to those who not only violated her but covered it up.

[uppityperson]

5. k&r

[Ilsa]

6. Is anyone surprised? Really? The army doc handed the

evidence over to the criminals. Whoever was supervising this chain of evidence should be prosecuted. Even if the one holdong the box meant to do right, someone got to him.

Maybe the army should report that she tested positive for STDs and see which KBR employees comes for treatment.

[Lorien]

7. It gets worse: KBR imprisoned her after the rape:

"The KBR security took me to a trailer and then locked me in a room with two armed guards outside my door," Ms Jones said. "I was imprisoned in the trailer for approximately a day. One of the guards finally had mercy and let me use a phone."

Ms Jones called her father in Texas, who called his representative in Congress, Republican Ted Poe. Mr Poe contacted the State Department, who quickly sent personnel to rescue Ms Jones and flew her back to Texas.

Ms Jones said she was still having reconstructive surgery after the brutal rape.


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[tbyg52]

8. What's the chain of custody on these things?

Nail whoever *should* have safeguarded them for destroying evidence. (Yeah, I know - like that'll happen.....)