Suffolk County has reached a settlement with a woman who alleged in a federal lawsuit that she was sexually assaulted in 2017 by a police officer in a precinct interrogation room while another cop falsified entries in a prisoner log to cover up for his partner, court papers show.
In the letter to Chief District Judge Margo K. Brodie and Magistrate Judge Peggy Kuo filed on Wednesday, Assistant County Attorney Stacey Skorupa said the county has reached a “settlement in principle” with the woman, who alleged in her lawsuit that former Suffolk officer Christopher McCoy had forced her to perform oral sex on him following a March 16, 2017 arrest in Wyandanch.
Skorupa’s letter does not outline the details of the settlement, but the letter said the agreement must be approved by the Ways and Means Committee of the Suffolk County Legislature. The county attorney’s office will submit the settlement to lawmakers for approval on Feb. 29, the letter said.
A spokesman for Suffolk County Executive Ed Romaine and a spokeswoman for the Suffolk County Police Department both declined to comment on the settlement. Attorney Michael Brown of Central Islip, one of the plaintiff’s lawyers, also declined to discuss the case on Thursday.
WHAT TO KNOW
- Suffolk County has reached a settlement with a woman who alleged in a federal lawsuit that she was sexually assaulted in 2017 by a police officer in a precinct interrogation room while another cop falsified entries in a prisoner log to cover up for his partner, court papers show.
- Assistant County Attorney Stacey Skorupa said the county has reached a “settlement in principle” with the woman.
- The details of the settlement, which must be approved by the Ways and Means Committee of the Suffolk County Legislature, were not outlined in court papers.
Newsday is not identifying the plaintiff by name because she is a victim of a sexual assault. Her case was detailed in a Newsday series that reported how the internal affairs bureaus of the…
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