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The Kentucky Court of Appeals upheld a $6.1 million award to a former McDonald's restaurant worker, Louise Ogborn, who was strip searched and sexually assaulted while working in 2004 at a store about 20 miles south of Louisville. The court ruled Friday that McDonald's Corp. knew about a series of hoax calls to restaurants around the country but failed to warn employees. Walter Nix Jr. of Kentucky, the fiancee of a McDonald's assistant manager, served a prison sentence for sexually abusing Ogborn, and David Stewart of Florida was acquitted. Ogborn testified someone called the restaurant, and, while impersonating a police officer, gave the description of a young female employee who had allegedly stole from a customer and instructed she be searched. McDonald's says she was the victim of a hoax operated by individuals not representing their company.