Christine Dobbyn – HOUSTON (KTRK) — A Houston woman is telling her story of survival for the first time on camera. She is a former KBR contractor who began working in Iraq in November of 2008.
Anna Mayo says what happened to her one morning in her sleeping quarters changed her life forever. While we don’t normally identify rape victims, the young woman says she wants her story heard.
In the fall of 2008, Anna Mayo left Austin to work as a KBR contractor in Iraq. Within a month, she was promoted to an operations specialist with project management.
“I loved it,” Mayo said. “I moved up really fast; I got a lot of responsibility.”
And then Mayo was moved to the night shift, so that meant sleeping during the day.
“I had a sign on my room that said daysleeper, please come back after 14:00,” she said.
On a November morning in 2009, there was a knock on her sleeping container door. She opened it to find a man she says was not an American.
“He told me that he needed to come in and check something in my bathroom,” Mayo said. Read more
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