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Connecticut Hotel Rape: Woman's Fault?
Connecticut Hotel Rape: Woman Victim culpaple? The Marriott Hotel in downtown Stamford, Conn., has claimed that a woman who was raped at gunpoint in front of her children in its parking garage three years ago was negligent in the attack.
Now the owner of the Connecticut hotel is expressing "regret" and "sympathy" after hotel lawyers said in court documents she was careless and negligent. As part of their defense, the hotel's lawyers said that the victim "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 cited in local stories.
Marriott International Inc. issued a statement Friday saying it's "profoundly sorry that such a terrible thing happened." The hotel chain based in Bethesda, Md. says the situation has "created a mistaken impression that Marriott lacks respect" for victims of violent crimes.
http://www.postchronicle.com/news/business/article_212251268.shtml
Connecticut Hotel Rape: Woman Victim culpaple? The Marriott Hotel in downtown Stamford, Conn., has claimed that a woman who was raped at gunpoint in front of her children in its parking garage three years ago was negligent in the attack.
Now the owner of the Connecticut hotel is expressing "regret" and "sympathy" after hotel lawyers said in court documents she was careless and negligent. As part of their defense, the hotel's lawyers said that the victim "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 cited in local stories.
Marriott International Inc. issued a statement Friday saying it's "profoundly sorry that such a terrible thing happened." The hotel chain based in Bethesda, Md. says the situation has "created a mistaken impression that Marriott lacks respect" for victims of violent crimes.
http://www.postchronicle.com/news/business/article_212251268.shtml