investigation into mcdonalds hiring sex offenders.

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  • candidlynuts
    candidlynuts

    NewsChannel 5 Investigates:
    Advocate Calls for Boycott, Sex Offender Says McDonald's Knew
    Posted: 5/2/2006 6:15:00 PM
    Updated: 5/2/2006 9:55:23 PM

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    A nationwide boycott of McDonalds -- that's what a child safety expert wants after a NewsChannel 5 investigation. He wants it to force the company to do background checks to keep molesters away from kids who eat and work there.

    Hiring Sex Offenders
    Click the map below to read more about cases in 14 states, including Tennessee.
    McDonald's Response
    Click here to read a statement from McDonald's corporate office about the allegations in this story.
    Click here to read a statement from a Tennessee McDonald's franchise owner regarding the incident that occurred in Franklin.
    Federal Lawsuits
    The federal government has sued McDonald’s franchises in Arizona, Arkansas and New Mexico for failing to protect teens from sex harassment and assault. Click a state to read more about these cases.
    Background Checks
    The founder of the National Foundation to Prevent Child Sexual Jody Gorran, says getting an FBI background check is easy. Click here to watch an interview with Jody. Also, check out his web sites: fbifingerprintcheck.com
    and
    mrbackgroundcheck.org

    Our exclusive NewsChannel 5 investigation found dozens of sex offenders working under the golden arches.

    McDonald's says it will not hire people that it knows have committed sex crimes at its company owned restaurants. But its franchisees are free to hire anyone they want,

    It's something that Jody Gorran, founder of the National Foundation to Prevent Child Sexual Abuse, wants to change. He says:

    "Boycott is an American tradition whereby the public can vote with their dollars, with their pocketbooks to effect change -- and in this case the change will be to make McDonald's take as much care in the hiring of employees as they do in making their hamburgers and fries."

    But it may not be as simple as doing background checks.

    One man says some McDonald's knowingly hire sex offenders -- and he may know better than anyone.

    He's a convicted sex offender and, until today, he worked at a local McDonalds restaurant.

    "Everyone knew I was on probation for statutory rape," Scott Smyers told NewsChannel 5's chief investigative reporter Phil Williams.

    Scott Smyers was a shift supervisor for this McDonald's in Franklin.

    But Tuesday, after two years, the franchisee that runs the restaurant fired him, citing his listing on the state's sex offender registry.

    Smyers was convicted for having sex with a 17-year-old when he was 21.

    "I think they fired me because they don't want the publicity," he says.

    It comes after an exclusive NewsChannel 5 investigation revealed that Nicholas Aloyo, a former worker at the same McDonald's, had previously been convicted of soliciting sex from a minor.

    He was recently re-arrested for possessing child pornography.

    A statement released by the restaurant owner claims, "I would never knowingly hire registered sex offenders in my restaurants."

    But Smyers says, "They knew Nicholas Aloyo was a sex offender. They knew I was a sex offender..."

    In Aloyo's case, probation officers had rated him to be a high-risk to commit new sex crimes. And the judge ordered that Aloyo accept "no employment ... in contact with minors."

    "Nicholas, I knew from Day One that he shouldn't have been working at McDonald's," Smyers adds.

    "He was in contact with minors?" Phil Williams asks.

    "All the time."

    Perhaps, most disturbing: on the restaurant's McFamily Nights, Smyers says Aloyo was the one who took care of the children.

    "They would allow Nicholas to be the one to be out in the lobby with the kids, set up the little bowling alley for the kids, sing on karaoke with the kids."

    He adds, "If you have an offender, and you knowingly allow them to go play with kids, it's probably not a smart idea."

    As for Smyers, he says his days under the golden arches may be over, but it's probably just a sign that it's time for him to do something else.

    "This is God's way of telling me, here you go, there's your door. Go find what you want to do."

    The local owner, James Daughtry, faxed a statement to NewsChannel 5 after the broadcast saying that Smyers had "falsified his employment application."

    But Smyers says he knows that his bosses knew that he was a sex offender.

    In fact, Tennessee probation officials say they have a strict policy. They check with employers to make sure they know who they've hired.

    McDonald's Restaurants Hire Child Molesters, Sex Offenders

  • candidlynuts
    candidlynuts

    sorry for the odd formatting..

    here is the direct link

    http://www.newschannel5.com/content/investigates/18989.asp

  • sf
    sf

    For the activists:

    http://www.mrbackgroundcheck.org/

    SEND EMAIL TO MR. GORRAN RE: THE WATCHTOWERS HISTORY OF CHILD ABUSE AND HOW THEY COVER IT UP AND REFUSE TO INSTALL PREVENTATIVE MEASURES TO PROTECT ALL THEIR CHILD MEMBERS...

    ALSO, STOP EATING AT MC DONALDS IMMEDIATELY!

  • candidlynuts
    candidlynuts


    mcdonald tv advertising for employees are directly aimed at mid teenage kids.

    if they are going to target kids as employees they have an obligation to make sure it is a safe environment for those kids to work at...

    not to mention customer children! bathrooms, the play place... too many areas where a child might be out of a parents eyesight for just enough time to be victimized.

    if you read about the guy in new jersey above he was fired from one mcdonalds, convicted of sexual assault, and was hired by another mcdonalds 6 days after he was free to work again!

  • sf
    sf

    Meant to post the vital stats that are located on bottom of embedded page:

    Jody Gorran, Founder
    National Foundation to
    Prevent Child Sexual Abuse

    6019 Via Venetia South
    Delray Beach, FL 33484
    Tel: (561) 638-7138
    Email: [email protected]
    ________

    He states he is "fanatical" about prevention of abuse. We shall see.

    sKally

  • GoldPenny
    GoldPenny

    "This is our moment, this is our time, this is our chance to stand up for whats right" An exclusive NewsChannel 5 investigation of sex offenders working under the golden arches now has the attention of Congress. "I'd like to bring to the attention of the committee a recent investigation by NewsChannel 5 in Nashville." That was how U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., began a statement to a congressional committee. The House panel was hearing testimony about the sexual exploitation of children. The congresswoman noted our investigation, which discovered dozens of child molesters and other sex offenders working at McDonald's restaurants. McDonald's markets itself as a great place for kids to eat and play -- and for teens to work. "This has seriously troubled me because of the actions we have seen by these despicable people and what they go to to try and get close to the children," Blackburn told committee members. In a separate interview with NewsChannel 5, Blackburn says she wants to see if more can be done to protect children. "That we have sexual predators who are going into a place like a family-friendly restaurant, going into a place where they can be hired and get close to these children, to me that is of tremendous concern." A child safety expert has called for a national boycott of McDonald's unless the chain does more to clean up its hiring practices. If you have information for our investigation, e-mail us. The address: [email protected]. http://www.newschannel5.com/content/investigates/19016.asp More articles at URL .. 14 states have sexual Predators working at McDonlads The federal government has sued McDonald’s franchises in Arizona, Arkansas and New Mexico for failing to protect teens from sex harassment and assault. Click a state to read more about these cases McDonald's Restaurants Hire Child Molesters, Sex Offenders
    Advocate Calls for Boycott, Sex Offender Says McDonald's Knew
    McDonald's Manager Molests Kids, Gets Promoted
    McDonald's Misses Sex Offender's Troubled History

  • GoldPenny
    GoldPenny

    "This is our moment, this is our time, this is our chance to stand up for whats right" An exclusive NewsChannel 5 investigation of sex offenders working under the golden arches now has the attention of Congress. "I'd like to bring to the attention of the committee a recent investigation by NewsChannel 5 in Nashville." That was how U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., began a statement to a congressional committee. The House panel was hearing testimony about the sexual exploitation of children. The congresswoman noted our investigation, which discovered dozens of child molesters and other sex offenders working at McDonald's restaurants. McDonald's markets itself as a great place for kids to eat and play -- and for teens to work. "This has seriously troubled me because of the actions we have seen by these despicable people and what they go to to try and get close to the children," Blackburn told committee members. McDonald's Misses Sex Offender's Troubled History

  • candidlynuts
    candidlynuts

    thanks for the update gold penny and welcome!

    the thing that has irked me the most about this story is how mcdonalds corporate office is denying any responsibility.by saying things like they dont get involved in the hiring practices of privately owned mcdonalds franchises...

    the owners name isnt on the giant sign!..MCDONALDS is. its like the jws.. WTBS has so many " franchises" now that they can say " we arent responsible for local problems! they belong to the florida franchise or the idaho franchise!"

    It is great to see some of the actions that some politicians are willing to take to make this issue known and to push for legislation to protect children.

  • fullofdoubtnow
    fullofdoubtnow

    I don't know if the Macdonalds in the UK hire such people, but it wouldn't surprise me if it were so. There are reasonably regular press reports about sex offenders having jobs where they have access to children because their employers couldn't be bothered to take the time to make a thorough investigation into their past, not a difficult thing these days really.

    Btw, welcome to the forum goldpenny

  • GoldPenny
    GoldPenny
    THE O'REILLY FACTOR
    Shocking Investigation Reveals McDonald's Employs Child Sex Offenders
    Friday, May 05, 2006

    May 09, 2006•Shocking Investigation Reveals McDonald's Employs Child Sex Offenders

    This is a partial transcript from "The O'Reilly Factor," May 4, 2006, that has been edited for clarity.

    BILL O'REILLY, HOST: In the "Personal Story" segment, millions of Americans take their children to McDonald's. There are often playgrounds at those restaurants, as you may know. And now there are charges that the McDonald's company does not screen its employees for criminal sexual offenses.

    A report by Phil Williams, who works for a CBS affiliate in Nashville, Tennessee, uncovered evidence there are dozens of child sex offenders working at McDonald's around the country.

    Now the company would not appear this evening and sent a statement saying they have strict hiring standards. Joining us now from Nashville is Phil Williams. The headline of your report is what?

    PHIL WILLIAMS, INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER: The headline of our report is that we found dozens of convicted sex offenders, many of them offenders with offenses against children, who are working at McDonald restaurants around the country.

    I mean, this really began with one local case here in Nashville. We had a convicted sex offender who had been radioed a high risk. He was someone who actually had a long history of sexual misconduct with children, some as young as 10.

    He had been ordered not to accept any employment around children, and then he was hired by a local McDonald's, even though he was listed on Tennessee's sex offender registry. His face, his name was up there for everyone to see.

    So that caused us to start questioning, what are the policies? And as we started looking at state sex offender registries around the country, we found about five dozen offenders who were listed on about four or five states, because most states don't list the names of the employees.

    O'REILLY: OK. Now, is it — could you do this to any company? Could you do it to Wal-Mart or any company and come up with the same amount, do you think? Is it just guys not being checked out by the managers of the stores?

    WILLIAMS: We could have done it, and you find lots of different companies who are listed. We looked at McDonald's because part of McDonald's marketing strategy is to convince its customers that it's a safe, fun environment.

    O'REILLY: No, I understand that. It's a kid-friendly environment, come here, and this and that.

    WILLIAMS: Right.

    O'REILLY: But what I'm trying to get at is this — is it a flaw in the McDonald's company that they don't check backgrounds? Or is this an American problem?

    WILLIAMS: Well, McDonald's Corporation specifically does not require its franchisees to do any sort of background checks.

    O'REILLY: Is that right?

    WILLIAMS: They have no prohibition against hiring of sex offenders, including child molesters, in their restaurants. The company at its corporate restaurant says it does not "knowingly" hire sex offenders, but it does not guarantee that it will do background checks even at its corporate-owned restaurants.

    O'REILLY: All right. This is what — I've got a statement — Bill Whitman — because I want to be fair to McDonald's, obviously. Bill Whitman, corporate, says, "We do not hire people with felony convictions. If we find out they are felons, they are fired. We are encouraging the same policies with our franchisees."

    So, I mean, there's some stores that are owned outright by McDonald's, and there's some that they franchise out to other people.

    But you say there is no requirement to check criminal background histories for any McDonald's employee, is that what you're saying?

    WILLIAMS: That's right. In fact, we found one incredible case in the New Jersey area.

    You had a McDonald's manager, an assistant manager, who molested several boys who worked in his restaurant. The police began an investigation, and he was working for a corporate-owned McDonald's restaurant.

    He was fired once the police began investigating this molestation. Six days later, he was hired and began working at a franchise restaurant less than 10 miles away.

    O'REILLY: Oh.

    WILLIAMS: He was prosecuted, he was convicted, and at his sentencing he had a letter of recommendation from the franchise owner. He went to jail for 90 days.

    O'REILLY: What part of New Jersey is that?

    WILLIAMS: This is in Hillsborough, New Jersey.

    O'REILLY: OK.

    WILLIAMS: He went to jail for 90 days, got out, and went to corporate headquarters, to their McDonald's University — Hamburger University, to be...

    O'REILLY: So even after he went to jail for this child molestation, he got out and they accepted him at McDonald's University?

    WILLIAMS: That's right, to become a full-fledged manager of a McDonald's franchise restaurant.

    O'REILLY: All right. So, I think the way it stands now — and again, we want to be fair — the way it stands now, there's chaos within the hiring structure of McDonald's. That chaos is leading the company to accept employment applications from child predators.

    Would that be fair to say?

    WILLIAMS: There are child molesters and sex offenders in the restaurants today.

    O'REILLY: All right, Mr. Williams. Thanks very much.

    And McDonald's is welcome to appear here to rebut any time it wants.

    http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,195479,00.html
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