The indictment comprises 16 charges ranging from sexual violence, beatings, assault, emotional distress and others

Detective Ysabel Villegas, who filed a lawsuit against an agent of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) and the City of Los Angeles for sexual harassment and pornographic revenge, managed to get the Council to approve a sum of 1.5 million dollars to compensate her.

"Ysabel went through horrible sexual harassment, pornographic revenge, and intimate partner violence, and her employer the LAPD did not protect her."Said Lisa Bloom, attorney for the detective.

He added that with this compensation all civil accusations against the LAPD and the City of Los Angeles are resolved, while the victim will cooperate in everything with the criminal and internal investigation that is still ongoing.

The charges against the agent and the city of Los Angeles totaled 16, including domestic violence, sexual assault and harassment, pornographic revenge, hostile work environment, gender violence, civil extortion, invasion of privacy, beatings, negligent hiring, among others.

The lawsuit was against the City of Los Angeles because the LAPD did nothing to protect it. (Archive / The Opinion).

In March of last year, Detective Villegas filed a lawsuit in the Los Angeles County Superior Court against the LAPD agent, Danny Reed, with whom she had a relationship for five years, between 2013 and 2018; He also sued the City of Los Angeles for doing nothing to protect it.

In the complaint, she argued that Reed hit her in the face and stomach, broke her phone, and threatened to ruin her career and even death.

In a report made by the Glendora City Police in Los Angeles County, dated November 2018, the detective reported that eOn several occasions, she was forced to have sex under threat of violence and to expose her intimate photos to the public.or.

The complaint was made when the photos began to circulate among his coworkers at the LAPD.

"Emotionally it was devastating," Villegas said at a press conference alongside his advocate, attorney Lisa Bloom.

The detective regretted that the agent Reed with whom she had a relationship until August 2018, secretly and without her consent, had taken sexually explicit photos of her and threatened to make them public if they ended the relationship, which she did.

"It was humiliating and absolutely horrible that they distributed these photos, no matter how it could make me feel," he said.

It's not easy being a woman at LAPD, a male-dominated agency, says attorney Lisa Bloom (Aurelia Ventura / La Opinion)

In some of the texts sent by Reed to Villegas, included in the demand, it could be read: “I will publish the photos. I swear. I'm going to ruin you. "

In another text it is observed: “Prepare for the destruction of your reputation. You are finished. ”

Disappointed by the indifference of the LAPD authorities, Detective Villegas, who had 30 years of service in the LAPD assigned to the Elite Division of Robberies and Homicides, decided to take a medical leave from work due to stress.

She is one of the few women in that division. "How can the LAPD be expected to defend women who are victims if they do not support one of their own," attorney Bloom questioned in March last year.

"It is too much to ask the LAPD to comply with the law to protect its own official womenHe questioned.

Detective Villegas commented that no senior staff member approached her regarding allegations of physical abuse and pornographic rematch.

She believes the photos were sent to at least half a dozen police officers.

"I love my job, I love LAPD, but they turned their backs on me, and superiors have shown a lack of compassion for a victim," he said.

The lawsuit further indicated that they were exercised Labor retaliation against you when you change your division.

Detective Villegas did not find much support among her colleagues at the LAPD. (Aurelia Ventura / La Opinion)

One of the things that affected him the most was seeing that Agent Reed was sent to his house while the case was investigated, but collecting his salary from the LAPD. Nevertheless, he was forced to surrender his weapons; and a restraining order forced him to refrain from distributing Villegas' sexual photographs.

"It is not easy being a policewoman in a predominantly male police agency, especially when they refuse to protect an agent who is a victim," said the lawyer.

In a statement, the LAPD reported that they initiated an administrative investigation when they learned of the temporary restraining order and the report presented by Detective Villegas.

Villegas was the wife of LAPD deputy chief Jorge Villegas, who surprisingly retired from his post in October 2018, after an investigation was launched into allegations involving him in inappropriate sexual relationships with officers under his command.

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