Hotel: Conn. rape victim was careless

Stamford (AP) - Lawyers for a Connecticut hotel where a woman was raped at gunpoint in front of her children is putting some blame on the victim, saying in court documents that she was careless and negligent.

The papers filed in Superior Court by the Stamford Marriott Hotel & Spa last month are in response to the woman's lawsuit claiming the hotel failed to prevent the 2006 attack by Gary Fricker. He's now serving 20 years in prison.

Prosecutors said Fricker assaulted the woman in her minivan in the hotel's parking garage in front of her two children, then 3 and 5.

The hotel's court filing says the woman "failed to exercise due care for her own safety and the safety of her children and proper use of her senses and facilities."

The woman's lawyer didn't immediately return a message Thursday.

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Information from: The Advocate