Jones says she was raped in 2005 while working for KBR at Camp Hope, Baghdad. She has sued KBR, Halliburton and a former KBR firefighter, Charles Bortz, whom she says was one of her rapists. The Houston-based companies and Bortz deny Jones' allegations. The alleged sexual assault was investigated by authorities but no criminal charges have been filed.
Jones has told jurors she was drugged and then raped by a group of KBR firefighters. She said Bortz was in her room the next morning. She says she has no memory of what happened because she believes she was drugged with Rohypnol, known as the "date rape drug," just before she was sexually assaulted.
The Associated Press usually doesn't identify people alleging sexual assault, but Jones' face and name have been in media reports and she has promoted her case on her own website.
Bortz's attorney tried to show that after the alleged rape, Jones did not appear to act like she had been attacked but instead went to work as normal, joked around and talked about camp gossip.
McKinney showed jurors a series of emails Jones wrote at work the morning after the alleged sexual assault in which Jones joked with one of her friends at the camp and told this friend she felt the women at the camp hated her. Her friend warned her to not get "caught up in camp gossip."
Jones said she has no memory of writing these emails because she believed she was still feeling the Rohypnol's affects.
"It was either the drug or shock. I didn't know what to do. I wanted to go on with my job. I did not want (the rape) to be my reality," Jones tearfully responded.
But McKinney said testing done by the Department of the Army of a urine sample from Jones that was taken within 24 hours of the alleged sexual assault detected no Rohypnol.
McKinney has tried to suggest to jurors that Jones has changed details about how she was sexually assaulted, that she wasn't as severely injured as she claimed to be and that she has a history of making false accusations of sexual harassment.
KBR's attorneys, who began questioning Jones late Tuesday morning, tried to portray her to jurors as someone who has a history of being dishonest on resumes and job applications. Jones said these were simply mistakes.
Jones has accused KBR officials of locking her in a trailer after she told them about the rape and not letting her call her family.
She testified she's been treated for post-traumatic stress disorder, takes medications for anxiety and had to have reconstructive surgery for her breasts, which were disfigured in her attack.
KBR and Halliburton were unsuccessful in having Jones' case settled through arbitration as stipulated in her contract.
Due in part to Jones' case, federal lawmakers in 2009 approved a measure prohibiting contractors and subcontractors that receive $1 million in funds from the Department of Defense from requiring employees to resolve sexual assault allegations and other claims through arbitration.
Jones is asking for unspecified damages from KBR and Halliburton, which split in 2007.
