The town has agreed to pay an almost $1 million settlement to an NYPD cop who claimed different law enforcement officials sexually harassed her on the job, The Submit has discovered.
Officer Danielle Campo filed a federal lawsuit in 2019 alleging a fellow cop on the a centesimal Precinct in Rockaway, Queens, tried to sexually assault her, whereas one other sexted her and each referred to as her offensive names. She mentioned higher-ups and her union did nothing to cease the harassment when she complained.
Now, town has agreed to pay Campo $995,000 and one of many officers, Paul Marecki, will personally pay her $10,000, court docket papers present. The settlement should nonetheless be ordered by a choose.
Campo’s lawyer Rick Ostrove instructed The Submit that whereas, “No sum of money can right the wrongs carried out to my consumer. It is a step in the fitting route.”
“It is a expensive lesson for town to be taught,” the lawyer mentioned Thursday. “Hopefully, town will apply higher efforts to cease sexual harassment, particularly within the historically male dominated subject of legislation enforcement.”
Within the go well with, Campo, 41, alleged that fellow Officer Jon Mercado as soon as groped her and demanded oral intercourse from her whereas they had been in her automobile in January 2018.
She additionally claimed that Marecki allegedly repeatedly sexted her together with saying “ I’m a foot freak.”
Each males repeatedly referred to as her offensive names like “whore” and “thunder c—t,” Campo claimed within the go well with.
Larger-ups and her union refused to intervene, the lawsuit alleged.
When she complained about Marecki to her supervisor, he instructed her, “Oh man, he's creepy,” including that the cop was “hiding in her yard in timber,” the go well with states.
Campo mentioned she began loosing her hair and developed a full-body rash after allegedly being attacked by Mercado. Her docs instructed her it was because of the stress and put her on anti-depressants, the go well with mentioned.
Campo stays out of labor on incapacity “because of the emotional accidents she sustained,” Ostrove instructed The Submit.
The defendants proceed to disclaim Campo’s accusations, in keeping with the settlement settlement papers.
The NYPD deferred remark to the Legislation Division, which mentioned the settlement was in the very best curiosity of all of the events.
Marecki’s lawyer didn’t return a request for remark Thursday.
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