Posted on 11/04/2023 6:00:36 PM PDT by simpson96
LOS ANGELES - The mother of the 13-year-old who was violently attacked inside a Harbor City McDonald's filed a lawsuit Friday against the fast food restaurant and her daughter's alleged adult assailant, Ariana Lauifi.
According to the lawsuit, McDonald's failed to help prevent Lauifi's aggressive conduct.
"I am heartbroken that my innocent daughter was beaten," said Jones' mother Angelina Gray. "McDonald's staff and managers did nothing to intervene. They all stood and watched."
13-year-old Kassidy Jones entered the crowded McDonald's at 1728 Lomita Blvd in Harbor City after school on Sept. 6. When Jones walked inside, Lauifi was allegedly yelling "I fight kids," toward the crowd of customers.
As Jones tried to pass the crowd, Lauifi allegedly made eye contact with the teen.
Video of the altercation shows Lauifi grabbing Jones and aggressively hitting her in the face and punching her body.
"We were horrified to learn about this violent attack, and our thoughts are with Kassidy and her family," said McDonald's Harbor City owner and operator Tawnie Blade in a statement when the attack occurred. "Employees called police when the fight began, and we worked closely with local law enforcement to help with their investigation."
Lauifi was arrested three weeks after the assault and is currently facing criminal child abuse charges.
Jones is described as an honor roll student who takes on leadership roles at her school. According to Gray, Jones is still trying to recover from her physical and long-term emotional injuries.
"McDonald's has an obligation to provide a clean and safe place for its customers to dine. Kassidy's injuries could have been prevented and she should have been given some form of help after the attack," said the family's attorney Toni Jaramilla. "This situation should have never happened."
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Honor roll student went to McDonalds AFTER SCHOOL. It wasn’t like she was out late at night.
Staff and “managers” are usually just teens, unless there’s some retiree on duty. Other than call the police, what were they supposed to do? If it’s a troubled spot, maybe they should have a cop on the premises, but otherwise...
But you don’t get the ambiance at a grocery store!đ
Not a bad thing, IMO.
Isnât there another franchise that paints âto serve and protectâ all over their cars? If you can sue them for failing to protect you how can you sue McDonaldâs?
Not âcanâ but âcanâtâ
Home schooled?.
You’re right. They staffed good people - usually nice hard working teenagers who went on to college and better jobs. At one point in the early 80’s one in five people under the age of 50 had worked at MacDonald’s.
It does NOT have that clean cut ‘family’ vibe today.
While the lawsuit will go nowhere, I’ll say it’s a sad state of affairs that we live in a country now where no one would come to the aid of a 13-year-old girl being attacked by a nut. People should not have to be afraid of losing their jobs or being arrested for helping out victims.
Her situational awareness should have kicked in
Exactly. Theyâre food service employees, not security guards or bouncers.
That is the victim.
After you were pummeled by someone twice your size, taken to the ER where you were give pain meds you would not be bright eyed and bushy tailed.
That’s why I asked
No one responded until you
Thanks
I’ll ask to have it removed
Somebody post the pic of the attacker
About the best you can do is the video of the attack and her face is blurry. I am not sure if that is deliberate or not.
Appears to be a heavy set black woman.
Two things about this story makes me mad, one is that the mother suing McDonalds when there was literally nothing they could have done to prevent this given the state of the legal system in LA. The other is that Ariana Lauifi has already had the charges against her reduced to a misdemeanor.
WTH?
I thought black lives mattered? Apparently not if you are the victim.
It certainly is awful what happened to that girl
When I looked at the Alaska Airlines thing there were 3-4 pics right off and none of them were correct
The wrong one was still up on the thread (I tried to get it removed almost immediately)
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