A married 911 operator was canned simply months after suing her boss for sexual harassment — however Pennsylvania officers mentioned she’d been having an affair together with her supervisor for years.
Maille Russell Bonsall, an assistant 911 coordinator in Delaware County, was fired late final month after officers accused her of illegally recording conversations together with her superiors — a few of whom she claimed retaliated towards her after she reported the abuse, in line with the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Filed in federal courtroom final November, the explosive lawsuit accused former county emergency companies director Tim Boyce of subjecting Bonsall to “unwanted verbal, physical and sexual harassment during and after work hours” that included masturbating in entrance of her in his workplace, the outlet mentioned.
She reported the abuse, however Boyce’s successors allegedly retaliated by ignoring her and chopping off her entry to crucial methods.
The county, nonetheless, advised a far completely different story: Officers say Bonsall and Boyce had a “longstanding romantic relationship” that concerned sending nudes and sexually express texts to one another on county-issued cell telephones, the Inquirer mentioned.
Not solely was there no proof the 40-year-old married mother hated Boyce’s advances — she even texted him a number of occasions saying that she liked him, courtroom filings present.
County investigators additionally discovered that she’d joked together with her maybe-possibly paramour about being excessive on the job, wrongly modified her timecard and refused to take part in an investigation into her retaliation complaints.
Her lawyer, Mark Schwartz, denied his consumer had any such relationship with Boyce and stood by the swimsuit’s allegations, the outlet mentioned.
He additionally mentioned the county’s resolution to let her go was retaliatory and meant to punish her for reporting the abuse.
The 61-year-old Boyce is in sizzling water as it’s, nonetheless.
The county fired him in Could, and he’s heading towards a felony trial on fees of indecent assault and harassment after two different staff accused him of sexual misconduct, the Inquirer mentioned.
One girl mentioned he forcibly kissed her in his workplace, whereas one other mentioned he made lewd feedback and groped her.
Boyce has pleaded not responsible in each circumstances.
