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NEW YORK — New York State awarded awarded $60,000 to a volunteer firefighter in a sexual harassment complaint against her co-workers.
Beatrice Lozada, 35, is a single mom who volunteered for the Elmont, N.Y. Fire Department’s Truck Company 1 in 2006 and 2007, The New York Post reported. She filed a Division of Human Rights complaint against the truck company in 2011, alleging that her lieutenant repeatedly said “badonkadonk” and slapped her rear end. Other firefighters at the company began to follow suit.
“They made a lot of comments about my body. I have a very big butt and they would make a lot of comments about that,” Lozada told The NY Post. “I had to dress like a boy, talk like a boy, because I wanted to be as unattractive as possible,” she said, adding, “They said badonkadonk. They would say, ‘You have a fat ass.’”
Full story: Female firefighter wins $60K in ‘badonkadonk’ slap complaint against co-workers