The girl was raped as part of that "prank."
Still have trouble figuring out what McDonalds did that placed them at fault besides having money.
The managers should have gone to jail too.
If awards are based on stupidity, maybe the manager, Donna Sumners, who put Ogsborn through her ordeal, also deserved the $50 million demanded when she sued McDonald's
Ogsborn was 18 at the time and consented to a strip search in a small McDonald's office instead of telling the manager screw herself. After the strip search, she did not demand to put her clothes back on, made no protest when the manager's boyfriend came to guards her, and never screamed at the top of her lungs for help in the packed restaurant or put more up than a feeble protest.
From wiki:
"McDonald's based its defense on four points:
(1) Summers deviated from the company's management manual, which prohibits strip searches, and therefore McDonald's should not be responsible for any action conducted by Summers outside the scope of her employment; (2) workman's compensation statutes prohibit employees from suing employers; (3) Nix, who actually performed the acts, was not a McDonald's employee; and (4) the victim did not remove herself from the situation, contrary to common sense."
I know it is incredible for modern Americans to understand but at some point in our lives COMMON SENSE has got to come into play or soon we will all be dancing naked jumping jacks under orders of authority with no million dollar pay outs.