CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire town’s first full-time female police officer has filed a lawsuit saying she was the target of gender discrimination and sexual harassment.
Kimberly Hatch, who worked for the Ossipee Police Department for six years, alleges she was “repeatedly subjected to gender-based harassment/comments” by fellow department employees, New Hampshire Public Radio reported.
Hatch also said in the lawsuit that a colleague used a stun-gun device on her, and then “wrote on her forehead while she was disabled.”
The lawsuit against the town of Ossipee was filed in federal court in Concord this week. An email message seeking comment was left for a lawyer who represents the town.
Hatch was hired in 2012.
She said she was afraid to file complaints about the treatment she received “because she had been told on numerous occasions” that she was free to find somewhere else to work.
Hatch said she was fired in October 2018 after a dispute over damage to a police cruiser.
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