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SCANDAL! Teen Girl Sexually Exploited by U.S. Troops Halliburton Starbucks Supervisor

Posted on | January 27, 2010 | 16 Comments

OK, I headlined this but it deserves its own post: ABC News assigned investigative reporter Brian Ross to get the story of 16-year-old Starbucks barista Katie Moore and the 24-year-old manager who “essentially made her his sex toy”:

“I felt like I didn’t have a choice,” Moore, now 20, told ABC News.”I was ashamed and embarrassed. And I felt like he had complete control over my job . . . he knew all this stuff about my family and my friends and my school.”
She says the supervisor would summon her for sex in hundreds of text messages, including one that said, “I’d liked to f— tomorrow.”
“It was an everyday, numerous times a day occurrence,” Moore said. “And I just saw it and did what I had to do.”
She says other Starbucks supervisors and managers knew what was happening but did nothing to stop the illicit relationship.

This is the kind of sex-panic story that proves Hunter S. Thompson’s observation: “Nothing catches an editor’s eye like a good rape.” You don’t need Brian Ross to report this story, you need Joe Francis: Girls Gone Wild: Steaming Double Latte Edition.

Click here to watch the ABC News video, which contains these alarming tidbits:

“One in three teens reported sexual advances from adult supervisors in a recent study. . . . The problem is especially prevalent in fast-food places . . . And it’s not just Starbucks . . . In Memphis, at this Taco Bell restaurant, the manager pleaded guilty to raping two of his 16-year-old workers. One of them became pregnant.”

Teens! Sex! Rape! Pregnancy! Fully one-third of teenage girls are getting groped, shagged or sodomized by sleazy fast-food supervisors. It’s a prevalent problem, you see, a veritable crisis deserving of its own Lifetime network Movie of the Week.

Which raises the urgent question: Why didn’t ABC save this story for Nielsen sweeps month in February?

Category: Journalism, Scandal, Sex, Video

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16 Responses to “SCANDAL! Teen Girl Sexually Exploited by U.S. Troops Halliburton Starbucks Supervisor”

  1. RES
    January 28th, 2010 @ 2:33 am

    Drat! Having spent a moment contemplating the visuals for that Taco Bell rapist story I have to clean the keyboard and monitor. I expect that the company will be held liable for its sexually suggestive product line: “Your honor, my client was forced into a state of heightened sexual need by the constant exposure to the Burritos and Gorditos at work.”

  2. RES
    January 27th, 2010 @ 9:33 pm

    Drat! Having spent a moment contemplating the visuals for that Taco Bell rapist story I have to clean the keyboard and monitor. I expect that the company will be held liable for its sexually suggestive product line: “Your honor, my client was forced into a state of heightened sexual need by the constant exposure to the Burritos and Gorditos at work.”

  3. Joe
    January 28th, 2010 @ 3:20 am

    Statutory rape, just on the edge (depends on the jurisdiction). Rape? I mean if you are intimidated by the manager of a Starbucks*, well you have bigger problems.

    Sounds like a relationship that went wrong. An older loser taking advantage of a young stupid girl. Prison? Show me some facts justifying that? Like use of force? Like violence? Like wrongful imprisonment. Then fair enough. Otherwise there is a old school remedy for this offense…

    horse whipping.

    *I am surprised she did not claim that slut of a mermaid with her tail fins spread didn’t influence her–if only to help against Starbuck in the civil suit.

  4. Joe
    January 27th, 2010 @ 10:20 pm

    Statutory rape, just on the edge (depends on the jurisdiction). Rape? I mean if you are intimidated by the manager of a Starbucks*, well you have bigger problems.

    Sounds like a relationship that went wrong. An older loser taking advantage of a young stupid girl. Prison? Show me some facts justifying that? Like use of force? Like violence? Like wrongful imprisonment. Then fair enough. Otherwise there is a old school remedy for this offense…

    horse whipping.

    *I am surprised she did not claim that slut of a mermaid with her tail fins spread didn’t influence her–if only to help against Starbuck in the civil suit.

  5. M. Thompson
    January 28th, 2010 @ 3:33 am

    The reason this wasn’t saved for Sweeps was they’re too desperate for ratings even now.

    And that was with no real information you know.

  6. M. Thompson
    January 27th, 2010 @ 10:33 pm

    The reason this wasn’t saved for Sweeps was they’re too desperate for ratings even now.

    And that was with no real information you know.

  7. fozzy
    January 28th, 2010 @ 6:33 am

    I’m just not buying this story. The young lady isn’t a foreign maid in Saudi Arabia, she’s a 21st century California girl, and nobody is going to get raped for a Starbucks job. Sounds like she’s fishing for a big lawsuit settlement.

  8. fozzy
    January 28th, 2010 @ 1:33 am

    I’m just not buying this story. The young lady isn’t a foreign maid in Saudi Arabia, she’s a 21st century California girl, and nobody is going to get raped for a Starbucks job. Sounds like she’s fishing for a big lawsuit settlement.

  9. fozzy
    January 28th, 2010 @ 6:39 am

    “… who brought criminal charges against the Starbucks employee, Tim Horton.”

    Now I’m convinced this story is a hoax. Tim Horton’s is a coffee chain in Canada, they have 200 locations within walking distance of my house.

  10. fozzy
    January 28th, 2010 @ 1:39 am

    “… who brought criminal charges against the Starbucks employee, Tim Horton.”

    Now I’m convinced this story is a hoax. Tim Horton’s is a coffee chain in Canada, they have 200 locations within walking distance of my house.

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  15. Neil Hampshire
    March 22nd, 2010 @ 3:52 pm

    I think it is healthy for a 24 year old male starbucks manager to want to date a young worker. He is not a clergyman, and it is just a starbucks job. He should have impregnated her and tied the knot so that he could have had a happy future since a real woman would not want to marry nor shag a man who doesn’t have a real job that produces a real income. His wages are infantile. I know a barrista who only was able to make childish savings of $250 a month into his investments at the age of 36. I told him to grow up and put in at least $1500 which is still substandard that even a night watchman could do it.

  16. Neil Hampshire
    March 22nd, 2010 @ 10:52 am

    I think it is healthy for a 24 year old male starbucks manager to want to date a young worker. He is not a clergyman, and it is just a starbucks job. He should have impregnated her and tied the knot so that he could have had a happy future since a real woman would not want to marry nor shag a man who doesn’t have a real job that produces a real income. His wages are infantile. I know a barrista who only was able to make childish savings of $250 a month into his investments at the age of 36. I told him to grow up and put in at least $1500 which is still substandard that even a night watchman could do it.