A pistillate who suffered from seizures has won a harassment assertion aft her brag sent her a photograph of the miss from The Exorcist foaming astatine the mouth.
Charlene Friend's manager Lisa Gilbert nicknamed her 'Regan' aft the possessed kid from the classical 1973 fearfulness film, an employment tribunal heard.
The lodging serviceman - who had sustained a traumatic caput wounded successful a 'violent pack assault' - said the notation made her consciousness 'terrible' and 'mocked' by her colleague.
Ms Friend added that arsenic a Christian the thought she had an 'evil spirit' successful her had 'stayed with her psychologically'.
The tribunal besides heard that Ms Gilbert told her workfellow that people with intelligence wellness issues were 'attention seekers'.
Ms Friend was signed disconnected enactment due to the fact that of her seizures and aboriginal dismissed by her employer because determination was nary 'foreseeable prospect' of her being capable to instrumentality to enactment aft 2 years.
But she is present successful enactment for a payout aft a tribunal ruled that Ms Gilbert's comments were 'completely inappropriate' and 'distressing'
The tribunal, held successful Croydon, heard that Miss Friend began moving for Kent-based MHS Homes arsenic a lawsuit liaison serviceman successful 2018.
A pistillate who suffered from seizures has won a harassment assertion aft her brag sent her a photograph of the miss from The Exorcist (pictured Croydon Employment Tribunal)
Charlene Friend's manager Lisa Gilbert nicknamed her 'Regan' aft the possessed kid from the classical 1973 fearfulness film, an employment tribunal heard
In 2014, she was stabbed successful the caput with a machete and beaten with a shot bat during a 'violent pack assault' which near her with PTSD, anxiousness and cognitive impairments.
The proceeding was told that Ms Friend initially got connected good astatine enactment but aft a restructure successful 2019 she struggled to header with her caller relation and the magnitude of grooming needed.
In September 2020, she overheard a speech betwixt Ms Gilbert and different workfellow astir her show successful which her brag said she was 'lazy', 'incapable of doing her job' and they had to find a mode to fto her go.
This treatment caused Miss Friend to outcry and permission the bureau and the aforesaid day she contacted her GP and was signed disconnected sick for 7 weeks.
She returned to enactment successful November and continued to person her enactment reviewed arsenic she was considered to not beryllium managing her clip well.
The lodging serviceman had her archetypal seizure successful July 2021, which she believed was triggered by accent astatine work.
She was diagnosed with dissociative seizures - episodes that origin a person's her eyes to rotation up successful their caput and code difficulties - arsenic a effect of 'delayed intelligence trauma'.
After this Ms Gilbert began regularly referring to her arsenic 'Regan' and sent her pictures from the movie of the miss foaming greenish worldly from her rima and levitating disconnected the bed.
The tribunal, held successful Croydon, heard that Miss Friend began moving for Kent-based MHS Homes arsenic a lawsuit liaison serviceman successful 2018 (stock photo)
Miss Friend told the tribunal she 'felt terrible' erstwhile her brag called her this due to the fact that she was a Christian and believed successful demonic possession.
She added that Ms Gilbert was 'constantly mocking' her and that the thought she had an 'evil spirit' successful her has stayed with her psychologically.
The tribunal recovered these comments were 'offensive' and 'completely inappropriate' from a manger and they were 'distressing' for Miss Friend.
She was signed disconnected enactment again successful April 2022 and did not return, yet being dismissed successful February 2024 connected wellness grounds.
At the tribunal she won claims for disablement favoritism and harassment and nonaccomplishment to marque tenable adjustments but mislaid claims that her dismissal was discriminatory and unfair.
Employment Judge Philip Tsamados said: 'We are of the presumption that specified sanction calling and the sending of specified images are some unwanted and violative arsenic good wholly inappropriate successful the circumstances, peculiarly from a enactment manager.
'We tin good ideate however hurtful and distressing [Miss Friend] would find this peculiarly fixed the seizures that she was experiencing.'
Her compensation volition beryllium decided astatine a aboriginal date.
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