WARNING: This story contains disturbing details of accusations of sexual aggression, and It can affect those who have experienced sexual assault or knowing someone affected by it.
Several Windsor Police employees, Ontario, including a sergeant and staff superintendent, witnessed or informed them about accusations of internal sexual assault before the service said they realized them, according to claims for new documents obtained by CBC News.
The accusations revolve around the staff. Sergeant Ken Price, who faces four positions of sexual assault. The matter makes its way through the courts and a trial date for July 7 has been established.
The plaintiff, whose identity is protected by a prohibition of publication, also filed a complaint with the Ontario Human Rights Court (HRTO) that includes the same accusations.
HRTO documents contain 12 separate and detailed accusations between 2011 and 2021. Most of them involve sexual and moving comments while the plaintiff was at work.
None of the accusations has been tested in court.
Price’s lawyer Dan Scott, told CBC News that his client “absolutely denies any irregularity.” He declined to make more comments.
The Windsor police said previously in a press release that realized these accusations in January 2024 and were “immediately addressed.” However, the CVR complaint claims that many employees, including high -ranking officials, knew about accusations long before last year.
“As in the past practice, the Police Service Board has no comments on any article that is in front of the Human Rights Court,” said Jo-Anne Gignac, president of the Windsor Police Services Board, which provides supervision of the service.
Accusations date back to 2011
The Windsor police service fought so that HRTO’s records remain confidential. But after a four -month process, the court granted CBC News full access to a copy of the accusations, with the names of the plaintiff and witnesses written.
According to the complaint, the incidents began in April 2011, when Price and the plaintiff were working together, and allegedly said: “You have a good ass.”
The following year, things began to intensify and become physical, says the document.
On one occasion, said the plaintiff, he approached her from behind at work and leaned against the rear of his body.
“I could feel his nose pressed against the back of my head,” says the complaint.
Price allegedly put his hand on his hip and olfato his hair, saying: “You are so well.”
“This incident felt so intrusive, and smelling and facing other colleagues, I felt humiliated,” the plaintiff wrote in his complaint.
She continues to say that she felt “so uncomfortable and I felt overwhelmed by the incident. It was very intimidating … I felt very violated.”
In 2012, said the plaintiff, Price pushed her back to a sofa at work and supposedly rose on her.
“I tried to take it off,” he said in his complaint.
At one point, Price supposedly separated her legs and moved her body between them.
“He began to dry the hump three to four times. I could feel what his [penis]”The accusations are read.
“I could barely defend myself. I felt paralyzed. I felt that I was in a state of shock. I felt numb as if I wanted to shout, but I couldn’t,” says the plaintiff in the HRT complaint.
‘He felt so degrading and humiliating’
During the alleged incident in 2012, said the plaintiff, an agent and sergeant of personnel witnesses of the incident. Both names were written in the documents.
The plaintiff wrote that the sergeant of the witness staff told Price, jokingly, to “cut it or otherwise [the complainant] He will not return. “
“He felt so degrading and humiliating, not only for what he did, but because he was facing other people,” said the plaintiff. “There were no consequences for him and he knew it.”
In February 2023, said the plaintiff in her complaint that had a formal meeting with a group of Windsor police employees who was not related to these accusations.
But during that meeting with some unidentified people, including an inspector who is now superintendent, revealed the accusations of sexual assault.
“I was crying at that time and I felt overwhelmed at that time,” said the plaintiff in his complaint.
The plaintiff said that there was recognition in the room of the obligation for those who aware of such accusations to inform them.
“It is required that all members of the Windsor Police Service be aware of their conduct and the realization of others and report harassment incidents in the workplace they realize,” establishes a directive of harassment in the internal workplace .
After the meeting, said the plaintiff, nobody communicated with her U offered her resources for the victims of the crime.
The directive of the Windsor Professional Ethics Code says that “it is alert to the needs of crime victims and guarantees that support is obtained when necessary.”
In January 2024, the plaintiff filed Hrto’s complaint. In the same month, an investigation began by the Special Investigation Unit of Ontario, which has the mandate to investigate incidents involving municipal, regional and provincial police officers.
That led the SIU to present the four positions of sexual assault against Price on June 19, 2024.
On the same day, the Windsor police issued a press release on the positions.
The Windsor police said they are derived from “an alleged issue related to the workplace that was reported in January 2024 and immediately led by the Windsor police service.”
The service has not responded to a request for comments from CBC News that seeks clarity about the plaintiff’s accusations that other employees were told or witnessed long before January 2024.
The plaintiff almost renounces his work: complaint
Other accusations included in Hrto’s complaint include an instance in which Price supposedly put the victim’s hand on his crotch and tried to kiss her at work.
In a separate case, said the plaintiff, Price caught her “violently” while another officer was in a corridor in the workplace.
These accusations forced her to stop doing certain parts of her work, which makes him almost resign and finally take a stress license, according to the CVR complaint.
The plaintiff seeks $ 500,000 for lost wages, compensation for a loss of dignity and self -esteem, as well as general damage.
It is also looking for a price to be fired or degraded and that there is more training in the workplace of the Windsor police about harassment.
None of these accusations have been tested. In July, the Ontario courts said the matter was making its way through the HRTO processes and that it had not been scheduled.
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