Knott’s Scary Farm guest alleges Halloween maze actors assaulted her
A guest at Knott’s Berry Farm’s annual Halloween event has sued the park, alleging she was sexually assaulted and battered by two characters in one of the mazes.
Wenjuan Luo, who visited the park a few days before Halloween last year, filed a lawsuit this week against the park and its parent company, Cedar Fair, asking for unspecified legal expenses and damages.
In the suit, Luo said she entered a Halloween maze at Knott’s Scary Farm when an actor grabbed her hand, slammed it against a metal pole, splashed her with water and cursed at her.
Luo contends that she entered a second room in the same maze where another character, wearing only a diaper, pushed her into a corner and fondled her, despite her screams for him to stop.
The suit alleges that she suffered injuries to her hand and emotional distress. A spokesperson for Knott’s Berry Farm could not be reached for comment.
The suit was filed a few days after two teenage girls said that an actress at Universal Studios Hollywood’s Halloween Horror Nights humiliated them by calling them “sluts” and “whores” in front of a crowd. The girls appeared at a news conference with their attorney Gloria Allred, who has demanded an apology from the park.
Halloween attractions such as haunted houses, festivals and theme park mazes generated more than $300 million last year, a slight increase over 2012, according to the trade group Haunted Attractions Assn.
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