Our office represented a 13-year old victim of multiple sexual assaults and rapes that occurred at a high profile location near Charleston, West Virginia. The incidents happened inside of what was supposed to be a highly secured area where minor children were not allowed according to state regulations. Each time that the minor child was taken to the area, the criminal perpetrator had to go through a security checkpoint where the security guard should have stopped the vehicle and/or prevented the minor from entering.
Rist Law Offices filed a civil lawsuit on behalf of the victim against the entity that owned the secure area, the business that hired the criminal perpetrator, a state agency that was supposed to regulate security, and the criminal perpetrator. All of these entities denied any liability and even maintained that security was appropriate in the area where the sexual assaults occurred. Yet during the deposition of the security director of the business, it was disclosed that parties were happening inside of this secure area and that employees of various businesses had broken items and left empty liquor bottles and beer cans in the area.
The case settled for a confidential amount during a 12-hour long mediation. Following settlement, one of the defense lawyers involved in the case commended our office for representing the victim and stated that we “did an outstanding job helping the young girl to recover from a tragic series of events.”
