While showering with her two young female children on July 23, 2011, in a bathroom facility at Hammonassett State Park, a Young Woman noticed that they were being watched from behind the shower through holes. Subsequently, two men, state workers, were arrested and admitted their conduct. This conduct was invasive and insulting to my Client and also outraged her husband who witnessed the impact that this had upon his wife. The conduct appears legally actionable as it did subject the victims who were enjoying their family vacation time to extreme emotional and mental distress stemming from this invasion of their privacy.
The facility manager admitted that the holes should not have been there nor should the employees have been cleaning while females were showering in the bath house to begin with. Further, that frequent periodic inspections should have revealed their presence. The holes were present in the toilet and shower areas of the female's but not the male's facility, suggesting a pattern of persisting conduct, mismanagement of the facility, failure to train state workers about facility management, sexual harassment and to have actually implemented appropriate policies and safeguards to prevent this injurious behavior from taking place. The individuals who initiated this conduct were both employees of the State of Connecticut, Department of Environmental Protection and when apprehended and questioned by Police, eventually admitted that they had in fact engaged in this conduct while performing cleaning activities that were within the course and scope of their employment as State workers and did both view the naked body of this young Woman ( Now My Client) while showering. In addition, it appears that this conduct was part of a pattern, perhaps involving other workers who viewed the opportunity to observe naked women such as the claimant as a perk of the job. It is not known at this juncture who else engaged in the conduct, for how long it has been going on and how the park service could be so badly mismanaged and unsupervised so as to allow thi horrendous and harmful conduct to have taken place. Because this conduct engenders the liability of the State of Connecticut it is necessary to first file a claim with the Claims Commissioner's office seeking permission to Sue in the Superior Court .
