Another #MeToo lawsuit by a former Alaska Air flight attendant who claims that she was drugged and raped (by the FO?) on a layover.
Flight attendant sues Alaska Airlines; says she was fired after reporting rape
By: Siemny Kim
Updated: May 16, 2018 - 9:33 PMA former Alaska Airlines flight attendant is suing the airline claiming she was fired after she reported she was drugged and raped during an overnight stop.
In a lawsuit just filed, Ashley Geffre claims she tried to do the right thing but the company fired her in retaliation.
She also said a first officer corroborated her story about possibly being drugged but he wasn't fired.“I've loved my job as a flight attendant,” Geffre said. “It’s taken me amazing places. I've met incredible people.”
It was a dream job Geffre, 25, working as a flight attendant for Alaska Airlines.
“It was probably the best three years of my life,” Geffre added.
But last August, that all changed during an overnight stay in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
“It's devastating,” she said.
She went out for dinner and drinks with the first officer.
“And the next day I woke up early in the morning around 6 or 7 a.m.,” she recalled. “And I had no clothes on. My clothes were on every corner of the room and I was scared.”
She believes she had been drugged and raped. But she didn’t know who was responsible.
“I felt severe cramping beyond menstrual pain. I felt itchy. I felt sexually assaulted,” Geffre described. “I had no idea what had happened.”
She later learned from the Broward County Sheriff’s Office more frightening details about that night.
“I was found in a stairwell by a security guard who swore under oath he did find me in a stairwell with my pants to my ankles and I was slouched over with vomit on me,” Geffre said.
Geffre notified the airline that she couldn’t fly that evening.
“I did the right thing,’ said Geffre. “I did not feel safe to fly.”
She said the first officer also claimed he was drugged and couldn’t fly.
“As soon as I returned to Seattle a few days later, they called me in for questioning,” she recounted. “And I went in with my union rep and I had no idea it was going to lead to termination.”
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