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UPDATED COVERAGE: Sealy sent KETV NewsWatch 7 this statement following Donaldson's citation: "The alleged actions by this former actor in no way coincide with any policy at Mystery Manor. We have never asked character actors of ours to touch customers in any way. We take pride in the work that we do and are happy to have been haunting Omaha every Halloween Season since 1984."Sealy says Donaldson was asked not to return back to Mystery Manor, "but for reasons outside" of this story.PREVIOUS COVERAGE: A woman says an employee at Mystery Manor assaulted her Thursday night --grabbing and smashing her head onto a table inside the haunted house.The victim, who only wants to be identified as Nikki, 23, tells KETV NewsWatch 7, that she visited the haunted house with a group of friends around 9 p.m. It was Nikki's first time at the attraction.She says "a clown dressed in all black" followed the group into the house. After paying, they entered the first room where the clown first touched her.Omaha police later identified the "clown" as Brenton Donaldson, 27."I could feel his breath on my face and he was running his fingers through my hair," said Nikki. "I thought 'No big deal. It's a haunted house.' I knew they weren't supposed to touch you, but he wasn't hurting me or making me nervous at the time. I just let it go."Nikki says Donaldson followed the group through the home, and at times she felt targeted.When she became separated from the group, Donaldson saw the opportunity to hold her back against a wall and let other groups pass, Nikki says."That's when he grabbed my head and put his fingers through my hair. (He) smashed my head down onto this table. He held my head there for about 10-20 seconds," said Nikki. "At this point, I was almost in tears. I know this wasn't allowed. There were three other actors in the room and none of them did anything."Nikki says she began to panic."I was terrified. I just wanted to get out. I couldn't talk. I didn't have a voice. I was shaking," Nikki says.According to Nikki, Donaldson let her go and she was able to leave the room, but she came face-to-face with him again moments later."I stood up, tried to get around him quickly, and I tried to get out," said Nikki. "He pinned me up against the wall while holding a baseball bat in his hand."Nikki says her fear was evident as Donaldson tried to get her inside a cage."He knows at this point, I was terrified. I was legitimately freaked out and scared," said Nikki.Nikki said it took her awhile to get out of the haunted house. She was able to exit and reunite with the group with whom she entered with. She says she didn't have a voice and that she was scared, and shaken up after leaving.Donaldson came outside and followed the group out to the parking lot, Nikki says."He followed us to the car, and when we got to the car, he said 'You're lucky I didn't drive you off by your pretty little cowgirl boots. I kidnap little girls like you,'" Nikki recalls.Nikki says she felt those comments were unnecessary and made her sick when she heard them. When she threatened to take a photo of Donaldson, he returned back to the haunted house, according to Nikki.Nikki asked on social media: "Are people at Mystery Manor allowed to touch you?"Nikki said several others reported haunted house employees touching them. The manager of Mystery Manor, Mark Sealy, was asked about Nikki's experience."Whoa," he said. "We absolutely do not allow touching at Mystery Manor. We may produce crazy ads as well as kidnap people from the line 'purge style'... but these are all our actors. I'm not happy to hear you had this type of experience at Mystery Manor. It will be addressed immediately."KETV NewsWatch 7 requested an interview with Sealy. He declined an on-camera interview saying:"We don't see a need to go on camera for this story. We are paid by our customers to scare them. That is our job."Sealy also released the following statement:"We absolutely do not allow our actors to touch patrons at Mystery Manor. We do produce crazy advertisement videos as well as kidnap people from the line 'purge style.' But never is a patron touched or in any real danger at Mystery Manor."Nikki said Sealy's response is not acceptable because "the managers aren't in there walking through there with their actors.""It makes me question if they do background checks," said Nikki. "I wonder if they really know who is working for them because this man touched me and it wasn't allowed, and I had a feeling he knew it wasn't allowed."Nikki says she loves to be scared for fun and loves haunted houses, but her experience at Mystery Manor was assault and she doesn't want it to happen to anyone else."The thing that really pushed me over the line was getting my head smashed into a table. It hurt. It was uncomfortable," said Nikki.Nikki did not suffer any injuries in the assault, police say.Donaldson was cited for third-degree assault.