An Iowa hotel has settled a lawsuit with a New Jersey woman who was raped and battered after the front desk gave the attacker her room key.
Attorneys for Cheri Marchionda say the operators of the Embassy Suites hotel in Des Moines agreed to a settlement before she was set to testify Wednesday. Terms were not disclosed.
According to court records, Marchionda was staying at the hotel as part of a business trip and was in the hotel’s bar when a man, later identified as Christopher LaPointe of New York, approached her. She rejected LaPointe’s advances.
She later awoke to find LaPointe in her hotel room touching her leg. He then battered and sexually assaulted her over several hours.
Opinion:
This is the problem with not seeing all men as criminals You think only black men do this. Whatever a white man wants he gets. Stop with this Black on Black Crime. If it is no white on white crime the other does not exist. It just a freaking crime period. That is sad enough with man inhumanity to man.
