NYPD bosses allegedly ogled female officers as they undressed through a secret hole in a locker room wall at a Bronx stationhouse, according to a bombshell lawsuit.<\/p>\n
The peephole \u2014 reminiscent of the notorious scene in the 1981 flick \u201cPorky\u2019s,\u201d where high schoolers spy on female classmates as they shower \u2014 was hidden behind a computer monitor, a victim claimed in court papers.<\/p>\n
Sgt. Joleen Lozano found the apparent spyhole when she worked in a shared supervisors\u2019 office at the Evidence Collection Unit on Washington Avenue in the South Bronx, she claimed in the legal filing. <\/p>\n
Sgt. Joleen Lozano compained to IAB after discovering a peephole in the wall at an NYPD building, a lawsuit alleges. NYPD Dom. Violence\/ X<\/p>\n
While Lozano was \u201cgetting ready to log into the computer and charge her phone, she notices that there is a hole drilled into the wall which allows anyone in the supervisors\u2019 office to look into the locker room through the peephole,\u201d according to the Bronx Supreme Court lawsuit\u00a0filed by lawywer John Scola in September.<\/p>\n
Photos show the hole was a drilled through a wall with a cord hanging out of it, but big enough to see inside the room where Lozano, 45, and other supervisors\u00a0changed their clothes. <\/p>\n
The wire didn\u2019t go anywhere, Scola said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe male supervisors of the unit would watch . . . the other supervisors of the command change in the locker room,\u201d Lozano claimed in the legal filing.<\/p>\n
The sergeant \u2014 with 20 years on the job \u2014 blocked the peephole with a metal plate and reported it to Internal Affairs, she said.<\/p>\n
She also filed internal sexual harassment complaints on behalf of herself and three other women against Sgt. Hubert Vandewerp, who regularly\u00a0 called her \u201cSergeant Ass\u201d and \u201cSergeant Lips,\u201d in front of other officers, including bosses, according to the lawsuit.<\/p>\n
Sgt. Hubert Vendewerp allegedly called Lozano \u201cSgt. Lips\u201d and \u201cSgt. A\u2013,\u201d according to court papers. Obtained by NY Post<\/p>\n
Her female colleagues allegedly told Lozano that Vandewerp, 42, frequently \u201cmade sexually explicit comments<\/a>\u00a0to them, cursed at them and then called them fat,\u201d she said in the legal papers.<\/p>\n