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By JULIE CARR SMYTH
Associated Press
POSTED: 04:31 p.m. EDT, Apr 22, 2008
COLUMBUS -- No criminal charges will be filed against an aide in the Attorney General's office over a junior staff member's allegation that he sexually harassed her, Columbus police said Tuesday.
An interview with Cindy Stankoski, who alleged harassment by her boss Anthony Gutierrez did not yield enough evidence to proceed with such charges, police said in a brief statement.
Stankoski alleges that Gutierrez, the general service supervisor for Attorney General Marc Dann, harassed her Sept. 10 while she was at an apartment where he lived with Dann and a third man.
Gutierrez took her to the apartment near Columbus for pizza with Dann, she said. Feeling drunk, she says asked to lie down and awoke to find her pants undone and Gutierrez lying beside her on the bed in his underwear.
Stankoski and a second office employee, Vanessa Stout, also filed sexual harassment claims with Dann's office and the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Those claims are being investigated.
Sgt. Rich Weiner, a police spokesman, said Stankoski's story and the evidence that she presented were reviewed by several levels of supervisors above the department's sexual assault unit because the case was high-profile.
''Whether it be ranging from rape to sexual imposition, there was nothing there,'' he said.
A message seeking comment left Tuesday for Gutierrez's attorney, Sam Amendolara.
Mark Collins, an attorney for Stankoski, said he respects the decision of the police.
''This was just that my client felt, and her family felt, it was her obligation to go forward with a criminal complaint,'' he said. ''We respect their decision not to file charges at this point in time.''
The decision has no impact on the ongoing harassment probe. Both women met for two and a half hours Tuesday with Ben Espy, the assistant to Dann who is leading the investigation.
COLUMBUS -- No criminal charges will be filed against an aide in the Attorney General's office over a junior staff member's allegation that he sexually harassed her, Columbus police said Tuesday.
An interview with Cindy Stankoski, who alleged harassment by her boss Anthony Gutierrez did not yield enough evidence to proceed with such charges, police said in a brief statement.
Stankoski alleges that Gutierrez, the general service supervisor for Attorney General Marc Dann, harassed her Sept. 10 while she was at an apartment where he lived with Dann and a third man.
Gutierrez took her to the apartment near Columbus for pizza with Dann, she said. Feeling drunk, she says asked to lie down and awoke to find her pants undone and Gutierrez lying beside her on the bed in his underwear.
Stankoski and a second office employee, Vanessa Stout, also filed sexual harassment claims with Dann's office and the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Those claims are being investigated.
Sgt. Rich Weiner, a police spokesman, said Stankoski's story and the evidence that she presented were reviewed by several levels of supervisors above the department's sexual assault unit because the case was high-profile.
''Whether it be ranging from rape to sexual imposition, there was nothing there,'' he said.
A message seeking comment left Tuesday for Gutierrez's attorney, Sam Amendolara.
Mark Collins, an attorney for Stankoski, said he respects the decision of the police.
''This was just that my client felt, and her family felt, it was her obligation to go forward with a criminal complaint,'' he said. ''We respect their decision not to file charges at this point in time.''
The decision has no impact on the ongoing harassment probe. Both women met for two and a half hours Tuesday with Ben Espy, the assistant to Dann who is leading the investigation.
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