Anklage: Sexuelle Belästigung durch seine Vorgesetzte trieb Polizisten zum Selbstmord

Für manche Netfeministin mag es Mimimi sein, für Nicole von Horst, Heiner Geißler und Co. vermutlich eine nervige Ablenkung von den einzigen Opfern von Sexismus, die wirklich zählen, aber für die Witwe des New Yorker Polizisten Matthew Schindler ist es nichts anderes als entsetzlich. Ihr Mann, berichtet sie, ist von seiner Vorgesetzten durch wiederholte sexuelle Übergriffe in den Selbstmord getrieben worden:

A married NYPD cop killed himself last year because his frisky female supervisor repeatedly pressured him to have sex or face a bad work schedule, a new lawsuit charges.

The widow of veteran officer Matthew Schindler is suing the police department and Sgt. Christine Hertzel, claiming his Feb. 13, 2012, suicide was brought on by sexual harassment at his job at the 115th Precinct.

The lawsuit, filed Jan. 22 in Queens Supreme Court, alleges a despondent Schindler, 39, shot himself with his service handgun on the way from work to his Long Island home after telling Hertzel to keep her hands off him.

It adds that he told Hertzel her unrelenting advances had left him depressed, but she refused to let up.

(...) After Schindler started at the 115th Precinct, Hertzel allegedly began demanding that he have sex with her. The lawsuit claims the two had sexual relations and Hertzel tied Schindler's job happiness to keeping the hanky panky going.

"The hours of work and work shifts of decedent, Matthew Schindler, were dependent on his submission to the sexual advances and demands of defendant, Christine Hertzel," the lawsuit says.

"Schindler was made to understand that he would suffer tangible detriment in his job, job assignments, working conditions and future prospects if he did not submit to the sexual advances and demands of defendant, Christine Hertzel," the lawsuit added.

On the day he killed himself, Schindler confronted Hertzel and said her sexual advances were "unwanted, repugnant and causing him psychic injury and suffering," according to the lawsuit. Hertzel allegedly refused to stop her come-ons and, despite Schindler's suicidal threats, allowed him to leave the precinct station house with his gun.

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