Attorneys want AG to intercede in suit involving former Shaw employee

Attorneys for Andrew Sawyer, a 20-year-old Baton Rouge resident who alleges he was sexually abused while working for The Shaw Group in Walker earlier this year, is asking Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell to intercede and demand that four men who were arrested in connection with the case be prosecuted. Sawyer’s attorneys say Livingston Parish District Attorney Scott Perrilloux is not pursuing the case, and that’s why Caldwell is being asked to get involved. Attorneys from Dedrick Moore & Associates and Haley & Associates have also sent word to U.S Attorney General Eric Holder asking him to intercede. Perrilloux did not return calls seeking comment today. A spokesperson at Caldwell’s office says the AG won’t comment. Sawyer worked for The Shaw Group at Sunland Pipefitting Plant in Walker for eight months, his attorneys say, and was subjected to sexual abuse and harassment by his co-workers, “including multiple levels of management.” His lawyers say Sawyer was tied down with electrical tape and “forcefully sodomized on multiple occasions” by his co-workers. Sawyer quit working for Shaw in February, his attorneys say. Following an investigation into the matter, the Livingston Parish Sheriff’s Office arrested four Shaw employees on April 13: Tommy Foster, 33, of Denham Springs; and Walker residents Zachary Foster, 22; Brennon Lott, 18; and Jonathan Lott, 36. They face charges ranking from simple battery and sexual battery to false imprisonment and aggravated battery.