McDonald's Strip Tease Chapter Closes

I realize the title is a bit misleading, and for those that clicked with lascivious intent or curiousity...gotcha.  It's good to know I am in good company.

CNN Money reports on a former McDonald's employee who was strip searched and induced to perform sexual acts received an award of $5.5 million in damages.

While I wholeheartedly agree that what occured is unconscionable and horrible, I am somewhat surprised by the amount of the award.  I don't see where such an amount is justifiable.  Assuming that the victim was very naive (not a hard assumption since she agreed to an alleged strip search by phone by proxy), I don't see how this in turn is an act that necessarily triggers McDonald's liability, aside from the fact that Mickey D's is the obvious deep pocket. 

I do agree that McDonald's was remiss in not warning their zees of this known scam occuring with frequency in that area.  While they diminished the award somewhat due to the victim's own fault, I don't see that it was reduced enough.  Even assuming that a strip search by phone by proxy was a legitimate form of police-work (a far stretch in the age of CSI and Law & Order), I don't see how the performance of sexual acts on a complete stranger is in any way believable as attributable to police-work. 

Granted, there is definitely a psychological component here in that she may have been inclined to follow any authoritarian figure supposedly acting on behalf of a police agency...but at what does a reasonable person become suspicious and refuse to continue?  And how is this substantially the fault of McDonald's?

Your thoughts?