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Ex-Contractor: 38 Women Suffering Abuses in Iraq Unable to Go Public, Press Charges

HeadlineFeb 13, 2008

A former contractor who says she was gang-raped by employees of Halliburton/KBR in Iraq says thirty-eight other women have come forward to privately recount their own stories of harassment and abuse. Jamie Leigh Jones says many of the women told her they cannot go public with their accusations due to clauses in their employment contracts. No charges have yet to be filed in Jones’s case after a nearly three-year probe. KBR is arguing for her case to be moved to private arbitration instead of a public courtroom.

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