Adela T. Bailor and Darryl Bailor v. Salvation Army and United States of America

RIPPLE, Circuit Judge.

Adela Bailor was assaulted brutally and raped by William Holly on May 9,1991, while Ms. Bailor was working as an administrative assistant at the Fort Wayne office of Prison Fellowship Ministries. At the time of the rape, Holly was serving the final six months of his prison sentence at a Salvation Army “halfway house” in Chicago. Ms. Bailor sued the Salvation Army on the basis of common law negligence and later amended her complaint to bring an action against the United States under the Federal Tort Claims Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1346. The district court granted the Salvation…