New Jersey Herald
The Bergen County woman said she thought her troubles had ended last May when she took refuge in her car after an altercation at her then-boyfriend s home in Vernon.
But as she settled into her vehicle for the night, she heard a knock on the window, she said in a lawsuit filed last week in Sussex County.
The knock was allegedly a prelude to a sexual assault by a Vernon Township police officer, Emanuel Rivera, who now faces criminal charges over the May 2020 incident. In the suit filed in state Superior Court, his alleged victim says the encounter has left her with lasting emotional trauma.