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Re:A fake job offer gone wrong by shkkmo on Saturday December 10, 2022 @08:01AM (#33932247)
If by "criminally culpable" you mean "awarded over a million dollars", then that is exactly what happened.

> Summers also sued McDonald's and was awarded $1 million in punitive damages and $100,000 in compensatory damages.

Re:A fake job offer gone wrong by matheusmoreira on Saturday December 10, 2022 @03:48PM (#33936636)
Meanwhile, her fiancée was arrested and imprisoned for years for doing pretty much the same thing she did. The suspect also walked free.
Re:A fake job offer gone wrong by sizzle on Saturday December 10, 2022 @04:08PM (#33936807)
Wtf really, that’s nuts. Got a source I can read more about this?
Re:A fake job offer gone wrong by matheusmoreira on Saturday December 10, 2022 @04:12PM (#33936848)
The news article itself.

https://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=3688563

> Nix was sentenced in March, 2006 to five years in prison.

> He pleaded guilty to sexual abuse, sexual misconduct, and unlawful imprisonment.

> Donna Summers was fired after the incident.

> She was charged with unlawful imprisonment, and was sentenced to probation after entering an Alford plea — a type of guilty plea in which a person does not admit guilt, but acknowledges the evidence is sufficient for a conviction.

> She broke off her engagement to Nix after viewing the surveillance tapes.

> Summers also sued McDonald's and was awarded $1 million in punitive damages and $100,000 in compensatory damages.

> After two hours of deliberations, Stewart was found not guilty on all charges.

Justice is a funny thing, isn't it?

Re:A fake job offer gone wrong by P5fRxh5kUvp2th on Saturday December 10, 2022 @12:53PM (#33934817)
yes, awarded a million dollars for being fucking stupid.
Re:A fake job offer gone wrong by loa_in_ on Saturday December 10, 2022 @01:46PM (#33935449)
And apparently completely devoid of any idea of human decency, yes
Re:A fake job offer gone wrong by cookie_monsta on Saturday December 10, 2022 @06:45PM (#33938293)
This seems a bit harsh. Nobody really says that about the participants in the Milgram experiment[1], but the psychologist in the ABC article says that this is probably why the caller targeted fast food restaurants

>"Everything is by the book," he explained. "This is how you serve it. This is exactly how you do it. You follow the book — you're OK. I believe he picked fast food restaurants because he knew, once you got them away from that book, once it was something outside the manual or the procedures, they would be lost."

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment

Re:A fake job offer gone wrong by P5fRxh5kUvp2th on Sunday December 11, 2022 @03:22AM (#33941319)
The participants in the milgram experiment are absolutely judged that way, the difference is there was no actual harm done in the experiment.

This woman should be in jail, criminal negligence is a thing.