A South Carolina woman has filed a civil lawsuit against an Ohio-based Circle K and one of its employees following an assault, alleging it resulted in a miscarriage.
What happened between Rev. Deria Francis and the Circle K employee?
Charles Boyk Law Offices filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio on behalf of Rev. Deria Francis, a minister, who was eight weeks pregnant at the time of the “violent attack” on May 23 at a Circle K in Bowling Green, Ohio, according to court documents. Francis’ husband, Dathan Stukes, was also listed as a plaintiff in the suit.
The couple, who is Black, resides in Hopkins, South Carolina. They were traveling with their two minor children, ages 13 and 8, to Detroit for a church conference and decided to stop at the Circle K located at 1602 E. Wooster St., the complaint states.
Francis, a Circle K rewards member, forgot to enter her number and asked the cashier, Shannon Walsh, a white woman, to cancel the transaction so she could add it.
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Francis alleges she had a miscarriage due to the attack
Walsh then denied the request, stating that it could take a few days for the funds she had already spent to be returned to her bank account. Francis asked again, saying that she did not care about the timeframe and wanted to use her rewards. Walsh allegedly became agitated, yelled at Francis to “get the f**k out” of the store, and threw a jar full of change that then struck Francis in the stomach, the suit states…