"According to the suit, he routinely treated Kominek-Adachi inappropriately because of her gender, used racial slurs and made derogatory comments about women in the office - telling her: "They need to know their place," and "They need to keep quiet," court records state. In one instance, Kominek-Adachi alleged that when she introduced Serrano Sewell to her boyfriend, he told her, "It's good to marry up.""
"In depositions, staff alleged that the skull had been last seen in reconstruction clay, which made it look like a mannequin head. Kominek-Adachi argued that Serrano Sewell, who thought that the skull was a prop, threw it away during the viewing room cleaning, which was needed for inspection. "It was total incompetence," Kominek-Adachi told KQED. "He has an office job and had no business handling remains.""
San Francisco's Board of Supervisors will approve a $750,000 settlement for a wrongful-termination suit claiming a top Office of the Chief Medical Examiner official discarded a skull needed to identify a body. The suit alleges the official routinely abused authority, used racial slurs and made derogatory comments toward women, including "They need to know their place" and "They need to keep quiet." The suit also alleges interference in a high-profile investigation by directing staff to change a cause of death for a supervisor's stepson and altering accreditation documents. Depositions say staff last saw the skull in reconstruction clay; it was mistaken for a prop and thrown away during cleaning. The plaintiff called the act "total incompetence."
Read at Kqed
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]