A 7-year-old girl was allegedly beaten and sexually abused by two boys while she was inside a play structure at a McDonald’s restaurant in Albany, according to a $15 million lawsuit filed against the corporation Monday.

The lawsuit, filed on the girl’s behalf, faults the restaurant chain for allegedly operating a play structure that has areas where children are hidden from the view of their parents.

According to the suit, the 7-year-old was at the Albany McDonald’s at 3232 E. Pacific on March 4. The girl’s mother told The Oregonian/OregonLive that she was watching her daughter from a table nearby but couldn’t see into a portion of the play structure on the second floor when the two boys attacked.

The mother said she heard her daughter screaming and rushed into the play structure to find the two boys, who looked to be about 5 years old, pinning her daughter to the bottom of the slide on the second story. One of them was straddling her daughter and beating her chest and face, the mother said.

“Her nose was bleeding,” she said. "She was screaming. I had to pull him off of her, and I just kept screaming, ‘Whose child is this?’ It was so loud in there, no one heard me at first. And then finally the parents came running.”

A Google Maps screenshot shows the McDonald's at 3232 E. Pacific in Albany.

The suit says the girl has autism. The girl’s mother quoted the girl as reporting that the boys also sexually abused her by kissing her “boobies and pee-pee.”

Neither a representative from McDonald’s Corp. nor from Beaulaurier Enterprises, the company that operates the Albany location, could immediately be reached for comment. Both are listed as defendants.

Portland attorney Michael Fuller, who is representing the girl, said the girl also reported that the boys had stomped on her nose. Fuller said the girl’s mother called police and the Oregon Department of Human Services.

The mother said her daughter is working with a psychiatrist to try to vocalize what happened to her and how she is processing it.

Her mother said her daughter now is afraid to go anywhere alone, has trouble sleeping and randomly asks “Why did those boys do that?”

The lawsuit also says McDonald’s should staff an employee to supervise the structure.

The suit was filed in Multnomah County Circuit Court.

-- Aimee Green

agreen@oregonian.com

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