So there was this woman who was brutally raped a few years ago at gunpoint in front of her children in the parking garage of the Marriott Hotel in Stamford, Connecticut.
Not surprisingly, she sued. Marriott's attorneys filed a counterclaim saying that the woman was negligent, which is legal-speak for "it was her own damned fault she got raped."
Needless to say, the legal strategy of "blame the victim" did not really win the Marriott any friends out among the folks in blogostan.
So they've retracted it, and, like the true weasels that they are, they are alternatively blaming the lawyer who filed the papers for not retracting it because of "a death in the family" and then they are blaming the insurance company.
Sad to say, Marriott is not the only sleazebag to try this. Carleton University in Canada evidently has the same idea that if you are raped, it's your fault.
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009
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In regards to "If you get raped at a Marriott Hotel, it is your own fault" the statement given was from a franchise hotel. Please see Marriott International's statement attached:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/18/AR2009081803491.html