Who knew the Delaware State Police was a hotbed of swingers activity, so much so that one woman had to file a sexual harassment suit to put an end to the sexual madness?
1) Diane Miller claims a State Police Captain badgered her into an affair... with an assist from his swinging wife, who actually first broached the idea with Miller.
2) She was also sexually harassed by another male police officer, who groped her, hit on her incessantly, and even threw pieces of paper in between her cleavage.
3) Miller
charged that top brass failed to protect her from the unwanted sexual
advances of Capt. John J. Laird even after she expressed concern about
working for him. Along with the state police, Miller sued its parent agency, the state Department of Safety and Homeland Security.
According to Miller's lawsuit:
Laird and his wife befriended
Miller after she began working for him at Troop 2 in Glasgow in June
2006. The couple often visited her home, sometimes spending the night.
Laird made repeated advances toward Miller and Cissy Laird urged Miller
to have an affair with her husband. One night, while Cissy Laird slept
in another room, her husband had intercourse with Miller.
4) At this point, our instinctive reaction was: Wait, you slept with the guy and now you're suing him for harassing you? This better get better... and it does:
Cissy Laird also planned a July 2007 vacation for the trio at Cabo San
Lucas, Mexico, where they stayed in the same room and Cissy encouraged
the extramarital liaison, the lawsuit said. But Laird's wife soon
became jealous and the trip ended in acrimony, with both badgering
Miller to keep quiet about their activities, the lawsuit charges.
5) This is the part where Miller had to put up with the guy from incident #2 (see above.) She was transferred out of this guy's unit and told she was now working for... yep, Mr. Laird.
And in February 2007, while she recovered from surgery, Laird
allegedly stopped at her home in full uniform, then grabbed her breast
and tried to kiss her, saying, "It's OK. ... Cissy knows that I am
here."
Not long afterward, Cissy Laird sent Miller a photograph of her husband in a bathing suit.
Also that month, the couple began visiting Miller's Dover home,
often bringing food and wine. Cissy Laird reminded her that her husband
had helped her and "had needs also," the suit said.
On one night
when the couple spent the night, Cissy Laird slept in a spare room and
her husband in Miller's bed where the two had sex, the suit said.
When
the three went to Mexico that May, the two women were supposed to stay
in one room, and Capt. Laird in another, the suit said. But upon
arrival, Miller learned all three were booked in one room with a
king-size bed. She expressed her displeasure, but Cissy Laird insisted
she would sleep on a pull-out sofa because this is "what HE wants," the
suit said.
6) This goes on and on... with no hint that Miller is unhappy with any of this. Until...
Miller and Capt. Laird later met at the Smyrna rest area, where he
begged her to keep quiet about the trip. If she did not, Capt. Laird
allegedly warned, she "better watch her back." She took his words as a
threat, the suit said.
She soon hired an attorney and in August,
after getting transferred to the Dover academy for recruits, filed a
sex discrimination complaint with the State Department of Labor,
Miller's suit said.
Martin said his client, who is in her 40s, felt she had no choice about having the affair.
"This
is about a troop commander hitting on a subordinate," the lawyer said.
"She felt a lot of pressure to give in to Capt. Laird."
There it is, folks. The chronology does not get into emotional feelings, just the facts, which is probably why we don't get a sense Miller is in any way dissatisfied with this arrangement. But looking back on it, it is clear that she is uncomfortable, at least, and it really doesn't matter in a sexual harassment case: if the advances are unwanted, it just takes a victim's say-so to make it valid.
Meanwhile, Laird was forced into retirement following the allegations. Meanwhile, Diane L. Miller is still working for the agency, as a $36K-a-year data processor...
Via Delaware Online.
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