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Lawsuit: Boyfriend of county personnel director asked victim for threesome and a variety of sexual acts
WARNING: This story contains illicit language that may not be suitable for all audiences TRENTON » The Dems apparently like to get freaky.
Stanley Patterson, the boyfriend of the head of the Trenton Democratic Committee, asked a female subordinate who worked with him at Mercer County Airport if she wanted to have a “threesome,” according to a sexual harassment lawsuit filed against Mercer County on Oct. 30.
The incident allegedly occurred at a December 2015 Christmas party, where Patterson also asked the victim if he could “touch her boobs.”
It’s the second recent lawsuit that Patterson has been hit with sexual harassment allegations from a female co-worker during his time working for Mercer County.
Patterson is a former Trenton Public Schools custodian who made more than $83,000 working for Mercer County as a confidential aide, until he was let go on Oct. 11 when the sexual harassment allegations became public.
Patterson is the livein boyfriend of Mercer County personnel director Raissa Walker, who has also been chairwoman of the Trenton Democratic Committee since 2012.
When reached by phone on Monday night, Walker had no comment on her boyfriend’s menage a trois proposal.
“I’m afraid I have no comment,” the Democratic leader said.
She also declined to comment if she was still together with Patterson.
The couple celebrated their one-year anniversary on social media in December 2013 and recently posed together in pictures just days before The Trentonian published the story of the first lawsuit.
After Patterson made his alleged indecent proposal in December 2015, he allegedly continued to still harass the victim, who started working for the county in May 2015 and is still employed with the agency.
A short time after the party at work, Patterson approached his female subordinate when they were alone and began to discuss his sex life with his girlfriend, the lawsuit states.
Patterson allegedly said his girlfriend likes to make out with other girls when she drinks.
He described that his girlfriend likes to be
touched “between her vagina and her ass” but that the victim’s boyfriend might not be “good enough yet” to “find her g-spot.” Patterson also explained that the key to “having good sex is a lot of foreplay,” the lawsuit states.
“First, you have to go down on a girl, then you can have sex with her,” Patterson allegedly said.
Apparently, Patterson then took the creepy switch to a whole other level and started watching porn on his phone at work after the conversation, the lawsuit states.
Having seen enough, the victim went to her team leader, Harold Hariston, in January 2016 to complain about Patterson’s harassment.
Shortly after she made this complaint, Patterson approached her and said, “Apparently I can’t talk to you because you tell everybody things,” the lawsuit says.
Patterson proceeded not to speak to the victim for approximately three to
four months.
But he could apparently not resist his temptations.
In the summer of 2016, Patterson allegedly told the victim that at his previous job at a hospital, he would rub his coworkers’ feet, the lawsuit states.
The supervisor then allegedly told his subordinate that they reciprocated the favor by either giving him cash or “jerking him off” or “giving him head.”
He then asked his coworker, “Do you need me to rub your feet,” the lawsuit states.
Patterson didn’t stop there.
When the victim would go away with her boyfriend on vacation, Patterson would allegedly ask her if it was “to get pregnant.”
He also remarked numerous times that she had a “great ass” and “big boobs” and that he is a “big boob guy,” the lawsuit says.
A Mercer County spokeswoman said in an email Monday that the county has “a policy to not comment on pending litigation.”
“With that, I reiterate the county executive’s recent comments which affirm that Mercer County has a policy prohibiting discrimination of any kind, including sexual harassment,” spokeswoman Julie Willmot said. “There is zero tolerance of unlawful discrimination, including sexual harassment, of any county employee, and training is part of the county’s continuing obligation to provide a harassment free work environment.”
However, the victim’s attorney, Kevin Costello, is contending that’s exactly what didn’t occur here.
He claims the county “failed to promulgate an effective policy to prevent or deter such harassment and/or failed to take effective remedial measures to prevent further harassment once (she) complained about Patterson’s sexual harassment,” the lawsuit states.
The attorney also faulted the county’s “upper management” for participating in or willfully ignoring the sexual harassment.
Costello did not return a message seeking comment.
The attorney is also representing the victim of the initial lawsuit against Patterson.
In that suit, the woman claimed Patterson repeatedly propositioned her for oral sex and sang sexually explicit rap lyrics such as “Put it in your mouth,” when they worked together.