An elderly Texas woman who was allegedly raped by an Uber driver has sued the rideshare company for negligence for allowing a driver to pick up passengers even though he faced criminal charges for assault.

In Doe v. Uber, which was recently filed in a Dallas state district court, the 77-year-old plaintiff alleges she was raped by Hashem Ramezanpour, who faced pending criminal charges for assaulting a young woman. Doe alleges that instead of taking her home on Oct. 22, Ramezanpour drove her to a secluded wooded area where he beat and raped her.

“When Uber placed unsuspecting women such as Ms. Doe, alone inside Ramezanpour's vehicle, it was like locking visitors at a zoo inside a hungry tiger's cage,” according to the suit, which alleges Uber was negligent in failing to do an appropriate background check on Ramezanpour before allowing him to transport passengers.