{"id":25042,"date":"2024-03-20T02:54:16","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T07:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=25042"},"modified":"2024-03-20T02:54:20","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T07:54:20","slug":"details-revealed-of-sexual-assault-allegedly-perpetrated-by-nyc-mayor-eric-adams-31-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=25042","title":{"rendered":"Details Revealed of Sexual Assault Allegedly Perpetrated by NYC Mayor Eric Adams 31 Years Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2024\/03\/18\/details-revealed-of-sexual-assault-allegedly-perpetrated-by-nyc-mayor-eric-adams-31-years-ago\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">As Breitbart News&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2023\/11\/23\/report-nyc-mayor-eric-adams-accused-1993-sexual-assault\/\">reported<\/a>&nbsp;in November 2023, an unidentified woman filed a lawsuit against the mayor, alleging he sexually assaulted her while the two were working together in 1993. On Monday, the&nbsp;<em>New York Times<\/em>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/03\/18\/nyregion\/eric-adams-sexual-assault.html?smid=tw-nytimes&amp;smtyp=cur\">reported<\/a>&nbsp;that Adams allegedly \u201casked a colleague for oral sex in exchange for career help in 1993 and sexually assaulted her when she refused.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Filed in Manhattan under the Adult Survivors Act, which provided New Yorkers a one-year window to bring lawsuits over sexual assaults that may have occurred decades ago, the woman said the incident allegedly happened when she and Adams worked together at New York City\u2019s transit police bureau. At the time, she had asked him for career help after having been passed up for a promotion. In the 26-page complaint, the woman claimed that Adams drove her to \u201ca vacant lot and requested oral sex.\u201d When she declined, Adams then allegedly \u201cforced her to touch his penis and ejaculated on her leg.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cThe effects of that sexual assault, betrayal and astonishing abuse of power, continue to haunt the plaintiff to this day,\u201d the lawsuit said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The woman claimed that she feared for her life at the time due to Adams\u2019 then-status as a police officer with a loaded gun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Mayor Eric Adams has denied the sexual assault allegation since the lawsuit was filed in November 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cThat is not who I am,\u201d he&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/office-of-the-mayor\/news\/928-23\/transcript-mayor-adams-hosts-community-conversation\">said<\/a>&nbsp;at a&nbsp;community meeting in December. \u201cI want to be very clear: Never happened. I don\u2019t even know who the person is. I don\u2019t even remember if I ever met them before.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The woman now lives in Florida and reportedly stopped working for the city in 1994. The lawsuit also seeks $5 million in damages and names the New York Police Department\u2019s (NYPD) transit bureau and the Guardians Association \u2014 a fraternal organization of Black police officers that Adams had been active in at the time \u2014 as defendants. She also accused the NYPD of \u201cgender discrimination, retaliation, creating a hostile work environment and inflicting emotional distress.\u201d Per the&nbsp;<em>Times,&nbsp;<\/em>the woman previously filed lawsuits in the past that were unsuccessful:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The plaintiff has filed other lawsuits in the past. In 2008, she sued American Airlines and lost, arguing that an employee had caused her to fall out of a wheelchair, injuring her back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">She sued the Miami-Dade County Public Schools Board in 2009, arguing that she was denied compensation after she was attacked by a student. She lost at trial and then appealed parts of the decision to the Florida Supreme Court and the United States Supreme Court, where she won several procedural motions but failed to win a retrial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The woman\u2019s lawyer, Megan Goddard, said in a statement that her client filed the suit out of a belief to hold sexual abusers to account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cShe knew that filing this lawsuit would cause her significant personal challenges, but she did so, nevertheless, because she believes sexual abusers must be held to account, no matter who they are,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2024\/03\/18\/details-revealed-of-sexual-assault-allegedly-perpetrated-by-nyc-mayor-eric-adams-31-years-ago\/\">Breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Breitbart News&nbsp;reported&nbsp;in November 2023, an unidentified woman filed a lawsuit against the mayor, alleging he sexually assaulted her while the two were working together in 1993. On Monday, the&nbsp;New York Times&nbsp;reported&nbsp;that Adams allegedly \u201casked a colleague for oral sex in exchange for career help in 1993 and sexually assaulted her when she refused.\u201d Filed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":25043,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1154],"tags":[2238,1582,2927,3500],"class_list":["post-25042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-alleged","tag-mayor","tag-new-york-city","tag-sexual-assault"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25044,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25042\/revisions\/25044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}