NYPD Female cop sues boss for $30million after he 'exposed himself and sent pornographic texts

Shemalisca Vasquez

A NYPD officer has filed a $30million law suit against the lieutenant she claims sexually harassed her, two years after her initial allegations fell on deaf ears.

Shemalisca Vasquez, 34, an officer in a Bronx-based Transit Task Force division alleges she was sent lewd photo messages and routinely offered sex in exchange for days off and assignments by Lieutenant Ruben Caban.

The accusations, originally brought to the attention of Internal Affairs Bureaus in 2010, claim that the harassment began during an Elder Avenue subway station stakeout when Ms Vasquez's superior flashed his genitals at her.

No criminal charges were filed by Internal Affairs when the unmarried Bronx native first complained about Lt Caban's behaviour, leaving Ms Vasquez in an uncomfortable situation at work.

Eric Sanders, the civil rights lawyer prosecuting on her behalf, told MailOnline after seeing his client's photographic evidence: 'He did it, there's no doubt about it.'

But after her charges were ignored, his client was moved from her post to another division in district 11.

The complaint, now filed at the Bronx Supreme Court, states that when Lt Caban produced his genitalia at Elder Avenue, Officer Vasquez told him: 'Put that thing away.'

'I was in shock and asked him if he's crazy and what is he doing and to put it away,' Vasquez, said in a 2010 statement given to the New York Daily News. 'I then left the room feeling embarrassed, scared, nervous, humiliated, disrespected and in shock.'

According to the plaintiff, over the next months her superior proceeded to email 'several closeup shots of a man's penis, including one which appeared to have been taken in the transit police command on Morris Park Ave.'

Another photograph showed a banana and a penis next to a woman's mouth with the subject line. 'Take a look and compare size.'

A text message is alleged to have read, 'I wish was was strapped to ur leg after seeing you in those tights. LOL,' while another similarly personal missive with an explicit photograph of Lt Caban attached purportedly read, 'I hope you like! Was bored and thinking!'

When Ms Vasquez revealed to a fellow female police woman her intention of reporting him to Internal Affairs, her adviser is said have told her not to bother because they 'don't help women.'

Now, two years later, a spokeswoman for the city Law Department assured the Daily News: 'We will weigh the allegations carefully.'