North Carolina woman sues former employer over Chucky doll prank she claims gave her PTSD

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A erstwhile slope worker has filed a suit against Truist Bank alleging favoritism and retaliation aft she said a prank involving the doll Chucky exacerbated her anxiousness disorder, according to respective reports.

Debra Jones claims successful the suit that contempt knowing she had a fearfulness of dolls, her manager placed a Chucky doll, "the doll that kills people," connected her seat successful her office, the New York Post reported. 

Jones claimed successful the suit that aft the incidental she was diagnosed with PTSD, saying she had shared her fearfulness of dolls with her manager astatine a institution cookout and that it affected her disabilities, which see generalized anxiousness disorder, large depressive upset and the autoimmune upset vitiligo, WRAL-TV reported. 

Jones claimed she was treated otherwise erstwhile she returned to enactment past twelvemonth pursuing 2 months of aesculapian leave, accusing the slope of retaliating against her for needing to permission astatine 3 p.m. to dainty her autoimmune disorder. 

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Chucky looking angry

CHUCKY -- "Give Me Something Good to Eat" Episode 102 -- Pictured: Chucky -- (Photo by: SYFY/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images) (SYFY/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)

After Jones returned to a caller bureau and caller manager she was "subjected to favoritism and retaliation based connected her being a qualified idiosyncratic with disabilities," according to the complaint. 

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Chucky and Alex Vincent successful  a secne from "Child's Play."

Child histrion Alex Vincent with Chucky successful a country from the movie 'Child's Play', 1988. (Photo by United Artists/Getty Images) (United Artists/Getty Images)

Her supervisors claimed that her coworkers "also needed clip off," the suit said, according to the station. 

Jones was fto spell successful March aft a manager told her she couldn’t support utilizing her disabilities arsenic an excuse, the suit claimed, People mag reported. 

Truist Bank sign

Chucky comes from the 1988 fearfulness movie "Child’s Play," successful which a dormant serial slayer inhabits a boy’s doll and kills people. 

The lawsuit, filed successful North Carolina successful May, claims the slope violated the Americans with Disabilities Act and Jones is seeking compensatory damages. 

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