Teh One Who Knocks
10-23-2013, 11:06 AM
By Daily Mail Reporter
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A Long Island woman has filed a lawsuit against the police officer who arrested her for drunk driving because he allegedly sexually assaulted her in the back of the patrol car.
Jennifer Hannigan says that when she was pulled over on suspicion onf drunken driving in June 2011, Nassau County police officer Gary Zima handcuffed her and made her sit in the back seat.
His partner, officer Rachel Miller was driving the police vehicle back to the station when Hannigan says that Zima assaulted her.
'He was close to my body and reached over at some point during the ride...and put his fingers inside of me,' Hannigan said in a press conference on Monday.
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She is now suing Zima and Miller, saying that the female officer did nothing to stop the abuse.
'I was visibly trying to make eye contact with her and felt like she was purposefully not paying attention to what was going on in the back seat,' she said.
'I was shocked, I was shocked. I never thought that something like that would happen when I was in the custody of the police with whom I have always trusted and respected and still do.'
Hannigan asserts that there was an official cover up to her complaints because she immediately reported the assault to the police department's office of internal affairs.
Local station ABC 7 says that their investigation found the claims 'undetermined'.
Adding another layer of acknowledgement to the saga, Hannigan says that Zima looked up her cell phone number from police records and texted her a few days after the incident, asking how she was doing.
She never responded.
'Officer Zima had the opportunity to rectify this mistake and to come forward and apologize and we wouldn't be here,' Hannigan said at the press conference.
'I think a lot of women suffer this kind of abuse in silence and I'm not one of them.'
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http://i.imgur.com/L70gjOc.jpg
A Long Island woman has filed a lawsuit against the police officer who arrested her for drunk driving because he allegedly sexually assaulted her in the back of the patrol car.
Jennifer Hannigan says that when she was pulled over on suspicion onf drunken driving in June 2011, Nassau County police officer Gary Zima handcuffed her and made her sit in the back seat.
His partner, officer Rachel Miller was driving the police vehicle back to the station when Hannigan says that Zima assaulted her.
'He was close to my body and reached over at some point during the ride...and put his fingers inside of me,' Hannigan said in a press conference on Monday.
http://i.imgur.com/E50DFxm.jpg
She is now suing Zima and Miller, saying that the female officer did nothing to stop the abuse.
'I was visibly trying to make eye contact with her and felt like she was purposefully not paying attention to what was going on in the back seat,' she said.
'I was shocked, I was shocked. I never thought that something like that would happen when I was in the custody of the police with whom I have always trusted and respected and still do.'
Hannigan asserts that there was an official cover up to her complaints because she immediately reported the assault to the police department's office of internal affairs.
Local station ABC 7 says that their investigation found the claims 'undetermined'.
Adding another layer of acknowledgement to the saga, Hannigan says that Zima looked up her cell phone number from police records and texted her a few days after the incident, asking how she was doing.
She never responded.
'Officer Zima had the opportunity to rectify this mistake and to come forward and apologize and we wouldn't be here,' Hannigan said at the press conference.
'I think a lot of women suffer this kind of abuse in silence and I'm not one of them.'
http://i.imgur.com/7K3lwhE.jpg