BREAKING NEWS: Walmart Hires Child Sex Offenders (More Than Once)

[European Lee]

COLUMBIA, S.C. - An attorney wants to reveal to the public how many Wal-Mart employees are registered sex offenders.

Attorney David Massey, who represents two girls who say they were molested in separate incidents by Wal-Mart workers, has been allowed to compare the discount store's state employee records going back five years with the state sex offender registry. The workers in each case were registered sex offenders.

On Thursday, Massey asked Circuit Court Judge Casey Manning to lift the order that keeps the number from being disclosed.

"Early on in this litigation, we stated in court that Wal-Mart had a cancer growing inside it," he said. "Our discovery of the number of registered sex offenders Wal-Mart has hired in South Carolina has confirmed our belief."

In the motion, Massey wrote it was "a matter of public safety for the protection of the children of South Carolina, and protection of children nationwide, that the number of registered sex offenders hired by Wal-Mart be unsealed."

As part of his latest motion, Massey said he provided the court with a sealed notebook containing the names of sex offenders hired by Wal-Mart.

However, he said he wanted only the total number, not the names, of the offenders to be revealed publicly.

Massey also wants Manning to force Wal-Mart to release information about sexual assaults on children by employees at all of its stores nationwide going back eight years.

Massey said that Wal-Mart has 10 business days to respond to his motion and that a hearing on it likely will be held early next month.

Wal-Mart spokesman Gus Whitcomb declined comment Thursday, saying the number is "part of a protective order by the court, so we're going to allow the court to rule on this matter."

The Arkansas-based retailer has more than 25,000 workers at its 72 Supercenters, discount stores, Sam's Clubs and distribution centers in South Carolina.

There are about 7,100 offenders on the state sex offender registry, maintained by the State Law Enforcement Division.

On Aug. 12, the same day Manning ordered Wal-Mart to turn over employee records to Massey, the retailer formally announced it would start criminal background checks on all new hires nationwide. Wal-Mart said the move had nothing to do with Manning's order.

The program is now operating in South Carolina, though Whitcomb won't say how many prospective employees were found to have criminal records.

He also has declined to discuss whether any current workers with sex offense records have been fired.

In court papers, the company said registered offenders could continue working "under certain limited circumstances," though it didn't give specifics.

http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/10436446.htm

WTF? I mean its not like these employees have easy access to kids on a daiy basis or anything like that

Fucking insane.

Regards,

Lee

[bigdog]

well they got to work somewhere better walmart then some school

[JamesK2]

no shit

[European Lee]

Well i guess we know where sexpedis working now at least

Regards,

Lee