A veteran NYPD officer who once blew the whistle on shoddy breast pumping conditions for cops says she was wrongfully forced into early retirement because of a message she wrote that was incorrectly construed as a suicide note, new court papers allege.
Officer Viviana Ayende says the Medical Board ignored her doctors’ determination that she is fit for regular duty instead voting to force her into early retirement on April 18, according to a Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit from Thursday.
“As a result … plaintiff will lose hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost pension benefits,” the suit says.
The 44-year-old mother of six — who came forward in 2019 about the alleged terrible breast-pumping conditions for nursing moms on the force — claims that she suffered years of retaliation for speaking out about misconduct, the court papers claim.
Then Ayende became “fed up” when the NYPD suspended her for a month in October 2018 for refusing to work with a partner who “abandoned her” on a tour, the court papers say.
So she left a note to her husband saying “she was sorry and that she was leaving,” the filing claims.
Ayende says she meant that “she could not handle the NYPD anymore and that she was leaving” for Puerto Rico for the duration of her suspension and “to regroup,” the court papers and Ayende claim.
But, her husband reported the note to the NYPD who had her committed to the hospital as suicidal, the suit alleges.
Ayende was released two weeks later and has been on...
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