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2 NYPD investigators sexually assault woman after investigating her rape

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kame-sennin

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The city isn’t responsible for two cops who took a rape victim boozing — before one of them allegedly groped her in bed — because they weren’t officially acting on behalf of the New York Police Department during the drunkfest, the city Law Department argues in new court papers.

The NYPD also isn’t responsible for training officers not to commit sexual assaults, as they’re “obvious criminal acts,” the city’s filings say.

Officer Lukasz Skorzewski and Lt. Adam Lamboy, formerly of the Manhattan Special Victims Division, flew to Seattle in early July 2013 to investigate the woman’s claims of a Jan. 6, 2013, rape in a Union Square apartment.

On July 6, the day after their initial interview,the idiotic investigators took the 25-year-old woman on a 10-hour bar crawl — and then persuaded her to go to their room at the Embassy Suites in Bellevue, Wash.

That night, she slept in Skorzewski’s bed while he slept on the sofa.

Around 10 a.m., Skorzewski slipped into the bed, groped the woman for half an hour, and then tried tearing off her clothes, the woman alleges.

Skorzewski, who was married with two children at the time, allegedly warned the New York nursing student to keep quiet.

“It can’t leave this room,” she quoted him as saying.

The woman, whose name The News is withholding, filed a $3 million lawsuit against Skorzewski and Lamboy , as well as the city, on Sept. 29.

The city’s filings contend that because Skorzewski, 32, and Lamboy went rogue, it isn’t liable for their misdeeds.

“Lamboy and Skorzewski were not acting under the color of state law because (the victim) does not allege sufficient facts to find plausibly that they invoked the authority of the NYPD when they engaged in conduct prohibited by the NYPD,” city lawyers wrote.

They added that she “has not plausibly pled that the city failed to train and supervise” the pair.

“The NYPD does not have an obligation to train officers not to commit sexual assault because it is an obvious criminal act,” the city also argued in Manhattan Federal Court papers.

The city did not comment on the new filings.

The officers copped to departmental charges of prohibited conduct in the incident. They kept their jobs, but were hit with demotions, suspensions and transfers from SVU. Lamboy, 45, retired.

The woman’s lawyer, Christopher Galiardo, contends that the city is responsible, claiming the NYPD “failed to establish guidelines, train or discipline its officers for sexual police misconduct.”

Skorzewski, who allegedly told the woman, “You’re my favorite victim” during the boozefest, filed a $2 million defamation countersuit against her in January.

The disgraced ex-detective claims her exclusive interview with The News harmed his “good name and reputation.”
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http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york...-acting-behalf-nypd-come-on-article-1.2519535
 
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EdibleKnife

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They pretty much shot any notion of their professionalism and "good name" in the temple the moment they decided to pub crawl with a victim.
 
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Kaako

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Makes the blood boil and sadly this is much more common than we think when police are involved.
 
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AlStrong

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Omegasquash said:
"You're my favorite victim" is serial killer level stuff.
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Role-playing while drunk? (article says "during boozefest")

Affair-backfire?

Pretty crappy all-around anyway. :/

“The NYPD does not have an obligation to train officers not to commit sexual assault because it is an obvious criminal act,”
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wut This is silly.
 
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wildfire

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entremet said:
Hahaha

They weren't fired?!

WTF?!

Man, cops are untouchable.
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Well keep in mind that it seems they admitted to only doing the bar crawl. It's the only way the defamation lawsuit makes sense because if one of them admitted to the groping then they couldn't file a counterlawsuit for something they admitted to doing.

Sharing drinks with people you are interviewing with is unprofessional but not worth firing over.
 
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Trojita

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Only "demoted" wow. The guy that retired probably got full retiree benefits.

Also why did they go to Seattle? If a case is to be investigated you don't fly literally all the way to the other side of the country, out of your jurisdiction, to do this. We are talking about NY cops right? The city has to foot the bill for people going to Seattle? This sounds like it was a vacation trip paid for by NY Tax payers.
 
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AlStrong

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v0yce said:
I honestly actually agree with that part. The idea that cops need training to know not to sexually assault someone is kind of crazy. Unless I'm reading this wrong.
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hm... well, I figured it'd be something along the lines of teaching what constitutes sexual assault (or even harassment). Some people really just don't have common sense? We've got programs on campus about it too.
 
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Metroidvania

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Trojita said:
Only "demoted" wow. The guy that retired probably got full retiree benefits.

Also why did they go to Seattle? If a case is to be investigated you don't fly literally all the way to the other side of the country, out of your jurisdiction, to do this. We are talking about NY cops right? The city has to foot the bill for people going to Seattle? This sounds like it was a vacation trip paid for by NY Tax payers.
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Yea, this doesn't make sense.

The city isn’t responsible for two cops who took a rape victim boozing — before one of them allegedly groped her in bed — because they weren’t officially acting on behalf of the New York Police Department during the drunkfest, the city Law Department argues in new court papers.

The NYPD also isn’t responsible for training officers not to commit sexual assaults, as they’re “obvious criminal acts,” the city’s filings say.

Officer Lukasz Skorzewski and Lt. Adam Lamboy, formerly of the Manhattan Special Victims Division, flew to Seattle in early July 2013 to investigate the woman’s claims of a Jan. 6, 2013, rape in a Union Square apartment.
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How is the entire trip not part of their job?
 
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fallengorn

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Trojita said:
Also why did they go to Seattle? If a case is to be investigated you don't fly literally all the way to the other side of the country, out of your jurisdiction, to do this. We are talking about NY cops right? The city has to foot the bill for people going to Seattle? This sounds like it was a vacation trip paid for by NY Tax payers.
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The rape occurred in 2013. The victim most likely moved sometime between then. I can understand needing to meet face to face on a case.

If the city flipped the bill, guess what, it's friggin' official business, so the city is on the hook. If they (for whatever reason) paid out of pocket. That's sketchy as shit.
 
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SlickShoesRUCrazy

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Fucking scum pieces of shit. Also fucking bullshit that the NYPD isn't liable. They were in Oregon acting on behalf of the NYPD. Was the room paid for by NYPD? Then they are fucking liable.

When are tax payers going to get tired of fucking paying the bills of asshole fucking cops.
 
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Trojita

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fallengorn said:
The rape occurred in 2013. The victim most likely moved sometime between then.
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Rape occurred in January that year. the sexual assault by the NYPD officers occurred in July of the same year. It takes that long for them to look into a rape? What is going to Seattle going to reveal?
 
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Fuchsdh

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The city isn’t responsible for two cops who took a rape victim boozing — before one of them allegedly groped her in bed — because they weren’t officially acting on behalf of the New York Police Department during the drunkfest, the city Law Department argues in new court papers.
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I buy that argument as for why the NYPD isn't culpable for their actions, but they were the ones who decided those actions didn't merit dismissal, so they can certainly be faulted there.

Why did anyone involved think "let's get hammered" was the right call to make?
 
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entremet

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Trojita said:
Rape occurred in January that year. the sexual assault by the NYPD officers occurred in July of the same year. It takes that long for them to look into a rape? What is going to Seattle going to reveal?
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The NYPD is pretty backlogged. It's the biggest city by population in the States.
 
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cpp_is_king

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That neurology resident from Florida was fired over a video of her being rude to someone. The NYPD can't discipline some cops over raping the woman they were supposed to protect?

Yeesh
 
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The Kree

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Why would anyone want to join an organization that protects these kids of people unless they are these kids of people?
 
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pablito

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Okay so the cop wasn't representing NYPD...but the "punishment" is sure taking advantage of that fact.

Sickening.
 
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fallengorn

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Trojita said:
Rape occurred in January that year. the sexual assault by the NYPD officers occurred in July of the same year. It takes that long for them to look into a rape? What is going to Seattle going to reveal?
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Articles are light on details, either there was a delay in reporting or a delay in investigation. Either way the victim was now in Seattle, probably home from college. I don't profess to now anything about police investigations, but I would think you'd want to interview the victim face-to-face. Or if there were sensitive material/evidence they needed to discuss.

Out of this ordeal, I think it's plausible that there was a need fly over. Now, what happens after that initial interview, is without a doubt, beyond sketchy.
 
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Pau

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And people wonder why women don't want to report rapes. This is probably on the extreme of things that can happen, but it part of a larger reality of the system treating rape victims like shit.
 
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Transhuman

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pablito said:
Okay so the cop wasn't representing NYPD...but the "punishment" is sure taking advantage of that fact.

Sickening.
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Being a cop is like having tenure at a university times 10.
 
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