Then the caller made an odd request, asking Summers to call her fiancé to have him watch the girl. "He wouldn't have any part of it."īradley walked out in disgust, leaving Summers with no one to watch Ogborn.
"He takes the phone and they're telling him to have me do certain things and drop the apron," she said. The man on the phone demanded that another employee be left to watch Ogborn until the police arrived and Summers chose 27-year-old Jason Bradley. Ogborn says she trusted her manager to do what was right.īecause it was a busy Friday night, Summers had to leave the office to check on the restaurant. Summers says she never second-guessed what she was being asked to do, as she firmly believed the person she was talking to was a police officer. Then the caller demanded that Summers have Ogborn remove her clothes - even her underwear - leaving her with just a small, dirty apron to cover her naked body. Ogborn was told to empty her pockets and surrender her car keys and cell phone, which she did. It was Ogborn's word against the accusation of a man claiming to be a cop, and she was given a choice: submit to a search or be escorted to the police station. "She said, 'Well, they said it was a little girl that looked like you in a McDonald's uniform, so it had to be you.'" I don't have it in me."īut inside the back office, which had now become an "interrogation room," Ogborn's protests fell on deaf ears. "I could never steal - I could never do anything like that. "I was like, 'Donna, I've never done anything wrong,'" Ogborn said.
Summers told Ogborn that the officer on the phone had their store manager on the other line and that he had described her and accused her of stealing a purse from a customer. This is the girl you described,'" said Ogborn. Ogborn was called into assistant manager Donna Summers' cramped office and told that Summers was on the telephone with a police officer.