Elderly Woman Sues Uber in Dallas After Alleged Rape By Driver
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…
December 11, 2017 at 03:38 PM
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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.
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