FARMINGTON, N.M., Feb. 4 (UPI) -- The family of a disabled Navajo man allegedly kidnapped and tortured by three McDonald's employees in Farmington, N.M., filed suit against McDonald's.
Authorities say Vincent Kee, a young man with developmental disabilities, was kidnapped April 29 by McDonald's employees Paul Beebe, Jesse Sanford and William Hatch.
"Some or all of the defendants ... employed Beebe, Sanford and Hatch, who were wholly unfit to work in a McDonald's from the beginning," the complaint states. "Every person who visited this McDonald's during 2010 was potentially in danger due to the employment of unfit employees."
The three are charged with taking Kee to Beebe's apartment, branding a swastika on his arm, shaving a swastika on the back of his head and writing degrading words on his body with a permanent marker, The Farmington Daily Times reported.
Kee's family filed suit Thursday in Santa Fe County, charging McDonald's and its local franchise owners, John and Celia Bronson, hired the three men without examining their criminal backgrounds.
Neither the Bronsons nor McDonald's executives could be reached for comment Thursday, the Albuquerque Journal reported.
