HUDSON COUNTY — A woman who went to two NJ Transit police officers for help four years ago claimed that she was subsequently forced to perform sex acts on them, and now she’s been awarded three quarters of a million dollars by a jury.
Last week a jury in Hudson County Superior Court awarded the Middlesex County woman $760,000 to be paid by NJ Transit and two former NJ Transit police officers whom she alleged raped her in 2006.
According to published reports, the woman was working at a financial firm in Manhattan and had drinks after work. She took the PATH to Jersey City. Upon arriving there, she told two NJ Transit police officers that she was scared and had been drinking, and wanted help finding her car at Liberty State Park.
Instead, according to the woman’s side of the story, the officers told her to take the light rail and they’d meet her at the park. There, they allegedly told her to drive her car and follow their car…then allegedly told her that if she didn’t “take care of” them, they’d arrest her for drunk driving.
She reported the crime, and one of the men’s DNA was found inside of her when she was checked out at Jersey City Medical Center, a news report said.
The men were convicted of official misconduct — but were not charged with any sex crimes — and spent nine months in jail. They no longer work for the transit agency.