A jury in Oregon awarded $1.7 million in damages to a woman who claimed a local community college used her past work in pornographic films as a means to discriminate against her and ultimately force her out of the school’s competitive nursing program.
According to the lawsuit, an unidentified individual notified Melissa Sperry, a nursing instructor and academic advisor at SWOCC, of Gililland’s previous work in porn during the Spring of 2018.
Upon her return to classes, the lawsuit alleged Sperry began making snide comments to Gililland that presumably alluded to her prior status as a sex worker, at one point stating, “Unclassy women shouldn’t be nurses, Nicole.”in SWOCC’s nursing program who felt they’d also been discriminated against. An older student said she was repeatedly insulted and told she “looked stupid” by a professor. Another claimed she was targeted due to her Eastern European accent.
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