Jamie Leigh Jones alleges she was gang raped by fellow workers in Iraq, but her parent company, Halliburton, tried to cover it up.
Jones, 22, worked for Halliburton/KBR in Baghdad. While in Iraq, she was raped by multiple men at a KBR camp in the Green Zone. After the incident, she reported the crime, but the company put her under guard in a shipping container with a bed and warned her that if she left Iraq for medical treatment, she'd be out of a job.
In a lawsuit filed in federal court against Halliburton and its then-subsidiary KBR, Jones says she was held in the shipping container for at least 24 hours without food or water by KBR, which posted armed security guards outside her door, who would not let her leave.
The Houston native used her cell phone to call her father, asking him for help. Her father called their U.S. representative Ted Poe (R-Texas), who in turn contacted the State Department and they had to go in and rescue her from the container.
Halliburton has since divested itself from KBR and claims that they are improperly named in the lawsuit.
Jones' story is now an ABC News story and will be used in an upcoming 20/20 investigation.
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