Posted on 05/04/2006 5:43:28 PM PDT by kellynla
No company has attracted children more successfully than McDonald's.
"They tout their environment as being safe and kid friendly."
It's a message delivered through its commercials, its products, even its kid-friendly spokesman.
"You always think of Happy Meals, the playground, the golden arch, Ronald McDonald."
By some estimates, 96 percent of all American children recognize Ronald McDonald -- second only to Santa Claus.
And the company boasts that Ronald's Play Places make it the world's largest operator of children's playgrounds.
"And it's a mecca, it's a magnet apparently for child molesters."
Customer Thomas Wesley says, "The last thing you expect is somebody who's a monster working behind the counter."
But when Wesley visited a McDonald's in Franklin, Tennessee, that's just what he says he discovered: a sex offender -- convicted of soliciting sex from a minor -- who'd also approached him for sex in a public park.
"Right when I saw him, I thought, 'Oh, God that's the same guy that told me he worked at a McDonald's and I knew was a pedophile," Wesley recalls.
Probation officers had rated Nicolas Aloyo as a "high-risk" to commit new sex crimes -- and the judge released him on condition that he accept "no employment ... in contact with minors."
The local franchise concedes Aloyo had worked at this McDonald's for some time prior to his recently being rearrested for possession of child pornography.
"It certainly makes you wonder," Wesley says, "how many other people may be working at McDonald's that have the same record."
In fact, our investigation discovered -- all across the country -- sex offender after sex offender after sex offender working under the golden arches.
(Excerpt) Read more at newschannel5.com ...
And their burgers are not so great either!
Part II
Advocate Calls for Boycott, Sex Offender Says McDonald's Knew
http://channel5web1.atiba.com/content/investigates/18989.asp
Part III
McDonald's Manager Molests Kids, Gets Promoted
http://channel5web1.atiba.com/content/investigates/18996.asp
For the life of me, I still can't figure out why judges let these freaks run the streets in the first place. Why are they not behind bars?
*Snicker*
PC, that's why.
I don't mean to defend these people, but what are they supposed to do if not find a job and be of some use to society?
Given the very large number of McDonald's employees in the USA, I would expect some of them to be child molesters.
"No" company? None?
Disney?
It's really hard to read articles where the first few words are pure hyperbole. You just know the author is setting up a demonization.
If we kept them locked up then we wouldn't have to worry about them getting a job around kids.
Mecca for child molestors....yuk...yuk
Gives a whole new meaning to "Big Mac".
I'm through shopping at Mc D's.
It's flipping burgers and mopping the floor at McDonald's, not guidance counselor. What are we supposed to do now, FBI check every short order cook in the country?
: )
"Given the very large number of McDonald's employees in the USA, I would expect some of them to be child molesters."
Not if the each restaurant mangager does a routine background check.
"I don't mean to defend these people, but what are they supposed to do if not find a job and be of some use to society?"
get serious!
there are plenty of jobs out there where a person is not working with and dealing with children...
if you can't think of any then that's your and the molesters' problem!
Don't you love when local news becomes judge and jury? The question we should all ponder is how many child molesters work at Channel 5? McDonalds may have hired the wrong person but how many people of questionable backrounds work for the finger pointers? Are they as clean as they claim? How do we know?
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