An NYPD officer is being accused of sending lewd text messages to a Bronx woman after he arrested her for allegedly shoplifting, according to a new lawsuit.
Kammie Sifonte, 22, is suing 24-year-old NYPD Officer Rony Santiago, the NYPD and the city for ‘in excess of $25,000’ for the ‘extreme and outrageous conduct’ which she claims violated her civil rights and caused her emotional distress, according to her lawsuit filed in the Bronx Supreme Court.
Her ordeal began November 21, 2016 when she was arrested by Santiago for allegedly shoplifting at Target.
Sifonte was taken to the 52nd Precinct in the Bronx before being released a short time later on a desk-appearance ticket.
NYPD Officer Rony Santiago (left), 24, is being accused of sending lewd text messages to Kammie Sifonte (right), 22, after he arrested her for allegedly shoplifting. She is now suing him, the NYPD and the city ‘in excess of $25,000’ for the ‘extreme and outrageous conduct’
Her ordeal began November 21, 2016 when she was arrested by Santiago (above). She claims that roughly 20 minutes after she was released, that Santiago began sending her text messages, despite not giving him her phone number
She claims that roughly 20 minutes after she left the precinct, Santiago sent her a text message despite the fact she didn’t give him her phone number and she believes he took it from the paperwork.
Sifonte told the New York Post that the first few messages she received were aggressive, but they weren’t vulgar.
‘You owe me donuts,’ Santiago allegedly wrote. ‘[w]henever you are free let me know…I get off at 4.’
The woman said she responded out of fear that the cop could retaliate or control what happened to her criminal case.
Sifonte claims the cop began sending her a number of explicit text messages saying he wanted to participate in a ‘threesome orgy’ and that she was ‘thick in all the right places,’ the suit alleges.
The officer offered to ‘rub you anywhere you want’ and told her that he flirts with attractive women that he arrests, according to suit.
The woman said she responded out of fear that the cop could retaliate or control what happened to her criminal case. Sifonte claims the cop sent her several explicit text messages saying he wanted to participate in a ‘threesome orgy’ and that she was ‘thick in all the right places,’ the suit alleges
Sifonte, who works as a pet-care specialist, said that she sent him a photo of herself and was concerned that if she ignored him he would possibly lie at her trial.
The officer allegedly sent her a message saying, ‘I think you look better with cuffs on.’
The 22-year-old woman told the Post that Santiago even threatened to show up at her home for dinner in on text message and in another message he sent a picture of himself in police uniform and allegedly wrote, ‘love a woman who could sit on my face.’
‘I was shocked and confused,’ she told the Post of the officer’s conduct.
The 22-year-old woman told the New York Post that Santiago even threatened to show up at her home for dinner in on text message and in another message he sent a picture of himself in police uniform and allegedly wrote, ‘love a woman who could sit on my face’
‘It hurts everybody in the community when a police officer does something like this,’ her attorney Henry Bell told the Post.
‘It erodes trust in the community, and that trust is essential.’
Her lawsuit says the vulgar and offensive messages came to end on November 23.
Bell said that her criminal case was later dismissed and sealed.
Santiago could not be reached for comment.
The NYPD does not comment on pending litigation.