Mayor Eric Adams requested a colleague for oral intercourse in alternate for profession assist in 1993 and sexually assaulted her when she refused, she mentioned in a authorized grievance filed on Monday.
The detailed grievance, which is a part of a lawsuit that was initially filed in November in Manhattan underneath the Grownup Survivors Act, mentioned that the lady, who labored with Mr. Adams at New York Metropolis’s transit police bureau, requested him for assist after she had been handed over for a promotion.
Mr. Adams, who was a police officer, drove the lady, an administrative aide with the division, to a vacant lot and requested oral intercourse, in accordance with the 26-page grievance. When she declined, he compelled her to the touch his penis and ejaculated on her leg, the grievance says.
“The consequences of that sexual assault, betrayal and astonishing abuse of energy, proceed to hang-out plaintiff to at the present time,” the grievance mentioned.
Mr. Adams, a Democrat, has repeatedly denied assaulting the lady. The mayor’s workplace didn’t instantly reply to a request for touch upon Monday.
Addressing the allegations at a group assembly in December, he dismissed them, saying: “That isn’t who I’m.”
“I need to be very clear: By no means occurred,” he mentioned. “I don’t even know who the individual is. I don’t even bear in mind if I ever met them earlier than.”
New York’s Grownup Survivors Act, which was signed into regulation by Gov. Kathy Hochul in 2022, offered a one-year window for folks to convey lawsuits over sexual assaults which will have occurred years or many years in the past.
The girl filed a quick discover of declare in New York Supreme Courtroom in November, simply earlier than the regulation’s one-year grace interval expired, accusing Mr. Adams of assaulting her.
However the brand new grievance goes into higher element and accuses Mr. Adams of requesting a “quid professional quo sexual favor.” It says that the lady was notably fearful throughout the alleged assault as a result of she believed that Mr. Adams, as a police officer, had a loaded gun within the automobile.
The girl, who now lives in Florida, joined the transit police bureau as an administrative aide in 1980 and stopped working for town in 1994, in accordance with the grievance.
Her lawyer, Megan Goddard, mentioned in a press release that she was pleased with her shopper.
“She knew that submitting this lawsuit would trigger her important private challenges, however she did so nonetheless, as a result of she believes sexual abusers have to be held to account, regardless of who they’re,” she mentioned.
The lawsuit in opposition to Mr. Adams seeks $5 million and in addition names the Police Division and the Guardians Affiliation, a fraternal group of Black cops, as defendants. Mr. Adams was energetic within the Guardians on the time of the alleged assault.
Along with sexual assault, the lady accuses Mr. Adams and the division of gender discrimination, retaliation, making a hostile work atmosphere and inflicting emotional misery.
The plaintiff has filed different lawsuits previously. In 2008, she sued American Airways and misplaced, arguing that an worker had prompted her to fall out of a wheelchair, injuring her again.
She sued the Miami-Dade County Public Colleges Board in 2009, arguing that she was denied compensation after she was attacked by a pupil. She misplaced at trial after which appealed components of the choice to the Florida Supreme Courtroom and the USA Supreme Courtroom, the place she gained a number of procedural motions however didn’t win a retrial.
Mr. Adams was an officer within the transit police bureau on the time of the alleged assault in 1993. He joined the Police Division in 1995, after the transit bureau was absorbed into the bigger company.
After greater than twenty years as a police officer, Mr. Adams served as a state senator and Brooklyn borough president earlier than he was elected mayor in November 2021.
The grievance mentioned that the plaintiff sought assist from Mr. Adams as a result of he had been an advocate for Black workers inside the Police Division. She mentioned she repeatedly mentioned “no” to him throughout the alleged assault and that she was “sickened and outraged” by his habits.
She mentioned she didn’t come ahead with the allegations on the time as a result of she was a divorced mom of younger youngsters and feared she may lose her job.
