Donald Duck Gone Wild
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While visiting Epcot Center in Florida,
a Pennsylvania woman alleges that a
Disney employee dressed as
Donald Duck grabbed her breast
and molested her after she
sought an autograph,
THE SMOKING GUN reports
August 10th, 2010
After the alleged groping,
Donald Duck made gestures–
apparently with his snowy
white hands—
“indicating he had done
something wrong,”
according to a lawsuit filed last
month by April Magolon.
The Upper Darby woman,
27,
was visiting Epcot with her
children and fiancé in May 2008
when the incident reportedly
occurred.
Magolon is suing Disney for negligence,
battery, and infliction of emotional
distress,
and is seeking in excess of $50,000
in damages.
The entertainment giant has petitioned
to have the lawsuit, which was filed in
Pennsylvania’s Court of Common Pleas,
transferred to federal court
in Philadelphia.
According to Magolon’s complaint,
she has suffered
“severe physical injury,
emotional anguish and distress
including, but not limited to
post-traumatic stress disorder”
as a result of the run-in with
Donald Duck.
She also contends that the
incident was “one of a long line of
continuing, long standing, similar
prior incidents “
involving the groping of patrons
by costumed Disney employees.
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