DAILY NEWS: Retired cop says NYPD boss repeatedly raped her at Yankee Stadium
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS: A retired NYPD officer says she quit the force — and a coveted assignment at Yankee Stadium — because her boss repeatedly raped her at the ballpark, the ex-cop claims in a Bronx Supreme Court lawsuit.
The former cop alleges that New York Police Department Capt. Jeffrey Brienza first sexually assaulted her after work in a bathroom at the Bronx stadium in June 2020 and then continued to force himself on her for more than a year after that, according to the suit filed against Brienza and the city on Monday.
“There were times when I used to feel like it’s unending,” the retired officer, who asked to remain anonymous, told the New York Daily News. “I would cry a lot of times. I would just wonder how am I going to get out of this. I saw no end. I felt so stuck ... I just felt so worthless and without any purpose.”
The 47-year-old woman said she was working at the 50th Precinct in Riverdale when she was offered a spot on the Yankee Stadium detail in March 2020.
When the 20-year-veteran started the stadium detail, Brienza took her under his wing, she said.
But Brienza, 48, soon turned the woman into his personal driver and insisted she run errands with him....