The City of New York has agreed to pay $1.25 million to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by three female police officers against a lieutenant in the 44th Precinct in the Bronx, the officers’ lawyers said on Wednesday.
The lieutenant, Alexander Rojas, 44, had been accused in the lawsuit of groping the officers, exposing himself, showing them explicit videos and photographs of himself, and making sexually explicit comments.
The lawsuit also accuses the lieutenant of retaliating against them after they rejected his advances by giving them less favorable hours and assignments. In one episode, Lieutenant Rojas hit one officer in the chest as he was grabbing files out of her hands, the suit claims. – READ MORE
