HOUSTON -- A Houston woman and a former employee of then-Halliburton-KBR claimed she was drugged and brutally raped by several KBR employees while working as an administrative assistant in Iraq, KPRC Local 2 reported Tuesday.

Jaime Leigh Jones, 22, claims the rape happened in July 2005.

Jones and her attorney have filed a civil lawsuit in federal court against the company. She claims she was abused and then locked in a guarded shipping container for 24 hours without food or water. She also claims she was threatened if she talked.

That's when Congressman Ted Poe said he got a call from her father asking for help.

"She was able to borrow a cell phone from a compassionate guard. She called her dad and then dad called us. Our immediate concern was to get her to a safe environment," Poe said.

Within 48 hours, Jones was back in the U.S.

The lawsuit claims a medical exam showed that Jones had been raped. However, those records have been lost.

None of the attackers has been arrested or charged.

Local 2 legal analyst Brian Wice said the State Department has not brought any criminal charges against the alleged attackers because they claim it's not their jurisdiction.

"This notion of it not being their jurisdiction is irrelevant. KBR is claiming diplomatic immunity but these thugs are not diplomats," said Wice.

Poe also said he hasn't had any luck getting a response from the State Department to his questions about any arrests or criminal charges.

Jones started her own foundation for sexually abused employees and now paints as a form of therapy.