Nation Wide Boycott Of McDonald's Called For By Children Advocates

NewsChannel 5 Investigates:
McDonald's Misses Sex Offender's Troubled History
Posted: 5/4/2006 10:15:00 PM

An exclusive NewsChannel 5 investigation has uncovered new information about a convicted sex offender. He worked at a local McDonald's. And what we've now learned raises even more questions about what he was doing inside a restaurant that targets kids.

Hiring Sex Offenders
Part 1: McDonald's Restaurants Hire Child Molesters, Sex Offenders
Part 2: Advocate Calls for Boycott, Sex Offender Says McDonald's Knew
Part 3: McDonald's Manager Molests Kids, Gets Promoted
Part 4: McDonald's Misses Sex Offender's Troubled History
cases in 14 states, including Tennessee.

McDonald's Response

Go to URL > http://www.newschannel5.com [1] to read a statement from McDonald's corporate office about the allegations in this story.

Go to URL > http://www.newschannel5.com [2] to read a statement from a Tennessee McDonald's franchise owner regarding the incident that occurred in Franklin.

Federal Lawsuits

The federal government has sued McDonald’s franchises in Arizona, Arkansas and New Mexico for failing to protect teens from sex harassment and assault. Click a state to read more about these cases.

Background Checks

The founder of the National Foundation to Prevent Child Sexual Abuse, Jody Gorran, says getting an FBI background check is easy. Click here to watch an interview with Jody. Also, check out his web sites: fbifingerprintcheck.com and mrbackgroundcheck.org

Contact McDonald's
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By all standards, Nicholas Aloyo has been a deeply troubled person for years.Five years ago, he was convicted for soliciting sex from a minor.

Most recently, he was re-arrested for possession of child pornography."They allowed him to play with these children," says Scott Smyers, a former

McDonald's supervisor and himself a sex offender.

He says that inside the McDonald's on Highway 96 in Franklin, there was no hesitation about letting Aloyo interact with children.

"They would allow Nicholas to be the one out in the lobbying with the kids, set up the little bowling alley for the kids, sing on karaoke with the kids," he recalls.

That despite the fact that Aloyo was listed right on Tennessee's sex offender registry for anyone to see."If they had done even a simple name check in the state of Tennessee through your TBI, they would have been able to uncover that he had a criminal history," says background check advocate Jody Gorran.

In fact, if managers at the McDonald's had driven two miles to the courthouse and pulled Aloyo's file, they would have found a report that describes a troubled history of misconduct with children as young as 10.

The report also says that, prior to his conviction, Aloyo had been fired from three other jobs for "inappropriate sexual comments" to employees and customers.

That's why he was rated a "high risk" and ordered not to accept employment in contact with minors.
"What is McDonald's thinking? What are they doing?" Gorran asks.

Smyers says, "They knew Nicholas Aloyo was a sex offender when they hired him."

As for the local McDonald's owner, all he will say is that Aloyo never should have been hired.
But, he hasn't said what he'll do to ensure that such high-risk offenders don't end up working inside Ronald's restaurants again.

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McDonald's Manager Molests Kids, Gets Promoted
If you have information for our investigation, e-mail us. The address: investigate@newschannel5.com [4].

McDonald's Hires Convicted Sex Offenders, Says National Foundation to Prevent Child Sexual Abuse; Child Advocacy Organization Calls for Nationwide Boycott

DELRAY BEACH, Fla., May 2 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Foundation to Prevent Child Sexual Abuse (NFPCSA) is calling for a nationwide boycott of McDonald's restaurants in light of the revelation last night by Nashville station WTVF (http://www.newschannel5.com [5]) that numerous McDonald's restaurants across the country have hired convicted sex offenders despite the fact that these offenses could have easily been uncovered through background checks.

Jody Gorran, founder and president of the NFPCSA, and also known as "Mr. Background Check," said, "It is absolutely unconscionable for an organization such as McDonald's, which holds itself out to the public as a safe, child-friendly environment, to allow restaurants in their system to knowingly or unknowingly hire convicted sex offenders to work in such close contact with children who come in either as customers or as fellow employees!"

Gorran contends that retrospective studies of adults suggest that 1 of 3 girls and 1 of 6 boys will be subjected to some form of sexual abuse by age 18. These studies further indicate that 46 percent of child molesters are non-family members who are known to their victims.

The NFPCSA reveals that sexual predators are generally unrecognizable to the community and parents of children. Child molesters who are known to their victims are frequently trusted adults in the community, like teachers, scoutmasters, coaches, day care workers, volunteers and employees of other youth-serving organizations, clergy, friends of the family, and neighbors. These are the people with whom we entrust our children on a daily basis.

Gorran believes the odds are very good that there are volunteers and employees in your community sexually molesting your children or your child's friends. Why does he believe this? "Because most child victims do not tell," says Gorran. "That's why a child molester can have as many as 150 victims before he's ever caught. Unlike a bank robbery, where everyone knows that a crime has been committed, because most child victims do not tell, no one else knows that there has been a crime," Gorran explained.

"That's why it is so important that organizations that provide services to children do in-depth background checks of their employees and volunteers, preferably using fingerprint checks through the FBI, whether it's the local McDonald's, the local Little League, or the local Boy Scouts," says Gorran.

For further information on the NFPCSA, child sexual abuse and doing fingerprint-based national criminal history record checks through the FBI, visit http://www.fbifingerprintcheck.com [6] and http://www.mrbackgroundcheck.org [7]

Go to url below and you can send McDonald's an email .. for date and time put the current and it will go through. Please state we are Boycotting them.

http://channel5web1.atiba.com/content/investigates/19060.asp [8]

part1
http://www.newschannel5.com/content/investigates/18959.asp [9]
part2
http://www.newschannel5.com/content/investigates/18989.asp [10]
part3
http://www.newschannel5.com/content/investigates/18996.asp [11]
part4
http://www.newschannel5.com/content/investigates/19060.asp [12]

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