A lawsuit filed today has alleged that the reason a veteran police officer committed suicide was because he was forced to have s*x with a female boss in order notto be punished by workload and scheduling.
Officer Matthew Schindler, 39, shot himself on February 13 last year after pulling onto the side of the LongIsland Expressway, New York on his way home from work. His widow Gina Schindlerhas claimed that her husband was driven to his death because his boss Sgt Christine Hertzel forced him into an affair from which ‘he could notescape’.
According to the suit, filed at Queens Supreme Court, the highway officer was ‘made to understand that he would suffer tangible detriment in his job, job assignments, work conditions and future prospects if he did not submit to the s*xual advances and demands…’, according to the New York Post.
The widow, who was leftto care for the couple’s five-year-old twin girls after her husband died, is suing the NYPD and theSgt Hertzel. She is seekingunspecified damages.
Mrs Schindler alleges thather husband had an affair with the woman from March 2011 until the time of his death.
Officer Schindler reportedly tried to put anend to the relationship on February 13, saying he would kill himself overthe guilt.
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