Family filing suit against Wal-Mart on sex offender cases; Orangeburg case mentioned
By WIS-TV.com Tuesday, August 09, 2005COLUMBIA -- The family of a 12-year-old girl is filing a lawsuit to force Wal-Mart to review the backgrounds of its employees.
Attorneys David E. Massey and David Patton are discussing petitioning for a class action lawsuit on behalf of children molested in Wal-Mart stores nationwide.
The lawyers claim that in September 2000, a Wal-Mart employee who was a registered child sex offender molested a 10-year-old girl in a Columbia Supercenter. They add that on July 3, 2004, a 12-year-old girl was allegedly molested at the Orangeburg Wal-Mart Supercenter by a Wal-Mart employee who was also a registered sex offender.
It has been more than a year and the Orangeburg case has not been tried. The press release also claims that at least three other children were molested in June 2005 at a Wal-Mart Supercenter in Scottsdale, Ariz., by an employee who had been charged with a similar incident in Ohio.
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