EX Halliburton Employee - Rape Victim: "There are people out there who would say this about money"

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http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/local&id=5836949

A young Houston woman talked exclusively with Eyewitness News about what she says happened to her in Iraq, a violent gang-rape committed by her former coworkers.
It's a story we've been digging into all week concerning accusations of a rape cover-up at KBR facilities in Iraq two years ago.

Next week, Jamie Leigh Jones will tell her story to members of Congress, but the Westfield High graduate explains to Eyewitness News why she went public and how she hopes her story will end. She says she has wanted to share it since that life changing day in July of 2005.

"I didn't wait two years to come forward," Jones told us. "I have tried to jump through hoops to get people to listen to my story and get a criminal prosecution."

Jamie says she was drugged and brutally gang raped by several KBR firefighters while working for the same company in Iraq.

"I remember looking down and seeing the bruises between my inner thighs, at that moment my heart sank," she said.

Jamie's mother remembers the phone call and knew a much different daughter would come home to her.
"As a mother, I felt very helpless because all I wanted to do is reach out and hug my daughter," Breanna Morgan said. "I couldn't at that moment and I knew right then she needed me."

"There are people out there who would say this about money, this is about attention," Jones said. "It's absolutely not. I will put my hand on the Bible in court and say under oath that every cent I get from this lawsuit I will put towards the Jamie Leigh Foundation and it will go towards other victims."

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1. This young lady is impressive

She and her family have been fighting to get her case heard for too long. The government non-response has been predictably appalling.