LOS ANGELES – A Los Angeles County Probation Department employee who alleged she was sexually harassed by a supervisor in 2014 was awarded $330,000 by a jury.
The Los Angeles Superior Court panel deliberated for about 1 1/2 days before finding in favor of Wanda Jimenez in the lawsuit she filed against Los Angeles County in July 2015.
Jimenez was hired as a detention services officer at the Probation Department’s Central Juvenile Hall in 2007. She alleged that the supervisor, Marcus Harris, touched her inappropriately and made sexually explicit comments that included, “I love girls that have long hair like yours” and “I only date Latina girls.”
Harris routinely complimented Jimenez on her body and told her that she had “bedroom eyes,” according to her lawsuit.
Lawyers for Los Angeles County denied her allegations.
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Serial predators says
Los angels county probation department covers up for these serial harassers, moving these men from facility to facility and retaliating against the victim. These woman become black balled and harassed by the department. This need to stop!!!
Rico Suave says
There are plenty of those kind of men in this world, that make life very difficult for women. Creepy, crawling perverts.
Scared to report! says
Los angeles county gives a slap on the wrists to sexual harrassment predators, this man has been been sexually victimizing woman for 30 years and the county did nothing about it but move him from facility to facility, Los angelse probation department sweeps major issues like this under the rug. Ms. Jimenez is a brave woman to have fought for 5 years and never took a deal. The fact that Los anglese county will and does retaliate against you if you complain is the fear woman hold with in.
Bedroom Eyes says
Marcus Harris needs to leave his Casanova routine at home.