During the complainant’s internal affairs interview, she was told she “was not [Hartley’s] only victim,” the complaint states. After the interview, she also was told by a chief deputy that her case “slipped through the cracks,” according to the complaint.
and worked as an academy instructor at the time.would pull her from trainings, or ask her to stay late, then sexually assault and degrade her, calling her “worthless and nothing but a slut,” the filing states.
POST heard 23 of those cases in 2009 — the most of any year in the database. Last year, POST heard eight.the Salt Lake County Sheriff’s Office said that the agency can only share “limited information” in response to the complainant’s allegations because of the pending lawsuit.Sheriff Rosie Rivera said she placed Hartley on administrative leave and began an internal affairs investigation “as soon as we became aware of allegations against him.
He later asked the woman if he could come to her house. Once he arrived, he transformed from “professional” to “flirtatious, the complaint states. Soon after the first assault, the woman said that Hartley made a comment in class that cadets could be fired “at any time and for any reason.” Eventually, the sheriff’s office opened the internal affairs investigation into Hartley and he left the agency.Since the assaults, the woman said she has tried to get the sheriff’s office and other local police departments to investigate Hartley for criminal charges, but none will take on the case. She also filed an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission claim against the department, which paved the way for filing the lawsuit.
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