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"                      <p class=\"imgtitle\"></p>           CHARLESTON -- A Putnam County woman is suing the owners of the Charleston Town Center mall after she claims she was assaulted while at work.<br /><br />Samuel Rose or John Doe was also named as a defendant.<br /><br />Forest City Enterprises is doing business as the Charleston Town Center.<br /><br />Brittany Hicks was employed as an assistant manager at Delias in the mall and was working when she claims a man believed to be Rose or Doe entered the store and committed unwelcome physical contact with her, according to a complaint filed June 21 in Kanawha Circuit Court.<br /><br />Hicks claims Rose or Doe had a history of criminal and/or harassing activity including committing battery and sexual misconduct upon women.<br /><br />Forest City knew or should have known that Rose or Doe was a danger to people in the mall and was negligent in allowing him to be permitted on the premises, according to the suit.<br /><br />Hicks claims the defendants' actions caused her severe and permanent mental anguish; emotional distress; pain and suffering; and physical injury.<br /><br />The defendants' actions also caused Hicks to incur lost wages and loss of income, according to the suit.<br /><br />Hicks is seeking compensatory and punitive damages. She is being represented by John Einreinhofer.<br /><br />The case has been assigned to Circuit Judge Louis H. Bloom.<br /><br /><em>Kanawha Circuit Court case number: 12-C-1153</em>"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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