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NY school principal, David Jimenez, keeps job despite sex harassment cases totaling $200,000 settled by city – says “I have not been disciplined” by my employer

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><div class&equals;"flag-region">&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;"><strong>Critics accuse NY mayor Bill de Blasio after city spends &dollar;200k settling abuse cases involving employee who is still keeping his job <&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;"><strong>NY city&comma; last month&comma; settled a second sexual-harassment suit&comma; in four years&comma; involving Dept of Education staffer David Jimenez  <&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;"><strong>Jimenez&comma; principal of the Manhattan Center for Science and Mathematics&comma; NY&comma; has been accused of sexually harassing two employees&comma; asking a staffer to lie&comma; unfairly forcing out a teacher and creating a climate of fear and retribution<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;"><strong>Lawsuits state that Jimenez  retaliated against the women when they complained about the unwanted advances <&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;"><strong>The city has now agreed to pay a total &dollar;200&comma;000 to two assistant principals at the school <&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;"><strong>Felicia Bray reached a deal on April 4&period; NY city will pay her &dollar;150&comma;000 <&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;"><strong>A sex-harassment suit filed by her colleague Arleen Milton was settled for &dollar;50&comma;000 in 2014 <&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;"><strong>Described as mean-spirited&comma; Jimenez in 2013 reportedly ordered a beloved 89-year-old aide to man the elevator all day in an effort to force her into retiring<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;"><strong>The principal allegedly wanted to give her &dollar;28&comma;000-a-year job to someone else<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;"><strong>Critics question why city officials say Jimenez&comma; who makes &dollar;173&comma;707 a year&comma; can’t be punished<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div id&equals;"featured-image-wrapper">&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"wp-caption-text featured"><strong><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-292573" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;05&sol;David-Jimenez-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"David Jimenez 1&period;jpg" width&equals;"743" height&equals;"493" &sol;> Manhattan Center of Science and Mathematics in Harlem&comma; NY principal&comma; David Jimenez&comma; was spared the chop&comma; twice &&num;8211&semi; His employer recently negotiated settlement totaling &dollar;200&comma;000 to two assistant principals who accused Jimenez of sexual abuse<br &sol;>&NewLine;<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"wp-caption-text featured">David Jimenez&comma; principal of the Manhattan Center for Science and Mathematics in New York&comma; appears to live within teflon coating&gt&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Jimenez has been accused of sexually harassing two employees&comma; asking a staffer to lie&comma; unfairly forcing out a teacher and creating a climate of fear and retribution&period;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"entry-content entry-content-read-more">&NewLine;<p>Skeptical social critics and political observers say while New York city Mayor&comma; Bill de Blasio has blamed a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;hyper-complaint dynamic” for a spate of sex-harassment complaints at the Department of Education&comma; the city has quietly paid out &dollar;200&comma;000 to two women who accused the same employee&comma; David Jimenez&comma; of the department of abuse&period; Ironically that man gets to keep his job&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The voices have grown louder in the last month&comma; since the city settled a second sexual-harassment suit in four years for the city school head&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;David Jimenez the sexual-harassment suit groped&comma; made unwanted advances and retaliated against the women when they complained&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The last negotiated settlement brings the totaling paid two assistant principals who worked under Jimenez at the school&comma; to &dollar;200&comma;000<br &sol;>&NewLine;Still in the abuse intolerant &num;MeToo era&comma; Jimenez&comma; who makes &dollar;173&comma;707 a year&comma; can’t be punished&comma; officials said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-292572" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;05&sol;Felicia-Bray-2&period;png" alt&equals;"Felicia Bray 2&period;PNG" width&equals;"496" height&equals;"637" &sol;><br &sol;>&NewLine;<strong>Felicia Bray Assistant Principal at the Manhattan Center for Science and Mathematics reached a deal on April 4&period; NY city will pay her &dollar;150&comma;000&period; settling claims she suffered abuse by principal David Jimenez&comma; from 2008 to 2009<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p>On April 4&comma; former Court&comma; Assistant Principal Felicia Bray reached a deal with the city of &dollar;150&comma;000 to settle a 2013 harassment suit she filed in Manhattan Supreme court claiming  she suffered Jimenez’ abuse from 2008 to 2009&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;According to her suit&comma; the harassment started when Jimenez touched her hand and told her he liked her&period; She replied that it made her uncomfortable&comma; and that she wanted to keep their relationship professional&period; But he still pursued her aggressively&comma; she alleged&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;In his office&comma; Jimenez &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;grabbed me from behind and tried to feel up my breasts&comma;” she testified in a deposition&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I was wrestling with him and started to cry&comma; &OpenCurlyQuote;What are you doing&quest;’ I was screaming&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;After five minutes&comma; he finally stopped when a janitor knocked on the door&comma; she said&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;He told me to hide in the bathroom&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;Another time&comma; according to her publicly filed deposition transcript&comma; he followed her car in his&comma; honking the horn&comma; and demanding he pull over and join him&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;In a health office&comma; Jimenez asked Bray to open a desk drawer&period; It contained a fake penis used in sex-ed classes to demonstrate condom use&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;He laughed hysterically&comma;” she recalled&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;In a school hallway&comma; Jimenez &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;leaned in and tried to smell me&comma;” she said&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Bray confided in another assistant principal&comma; Arleen Milton&comma; who revealed she had been harassed by the same predator too&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The two women agreed to stay together whenever he was with either of them&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;An earlier sex-harassment suit filed by Milton was settled by the city in 2014  for &dollar;50&comma;000 Milton claimed that Jimenez tried to kiss her&comma; made lewd comments and asked her on dates&comma; according to court papers&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;When Bray finally complained to the DOE’s Office of Equal Opportunity&comma; Jimenez escalated the harassment by slapping her with disciplinary letters&period; She was prompted to lodge a complaint with the city’s Commission on Human Rights&comma; charging that Jimenez was retaliating against her sex-based complaints&comma; Bray said&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Instead of investigating Jimenez&comma; the DOE terminated Bray as an AP&comma; citing &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;professional misconduct” and &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;insubordination&period;” She was demoted to teacher&comma; her salary slashed&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;A different school later rehired Bray as an AP&period; She now makes &dollar;140&comma;639&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Supporting he the trend of abuse and predatory behavior&comma; another former AP under Jimenez called him &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;mean and vindictive&comma;” saying&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;He shouldn’t be a principal&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;Records also revealed that Jimenez in 2013 ordered a beloved 89-year-old school aide to man the elevator all day&comma; in a  scheme to force her into retirement&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;He planned to give away her &dollar;28&comma;000-a-year job to someone else&comma; outraged staffers alleged&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6><strong><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-292576" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;05&sol;Fran-Tortorici-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Fran Tortorici 1&period;jpg" width&equals;"681" height&equals;"452" &sol;>David Jimenez was accused of plotting to force Fran Tortorici &lbrack;photo&rsqb;&comma; into retirement so he could give out her job<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It’s scary&comma;” said attorney Gerald Gross&comma; who represented both Milton and Bray&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;When you have similar acts alleged against the same principal&comma; it’s incumbent on the city to start seriously investigating whether to keep this guy in the same position&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;Regarding the allegations&comma; the alleged abuser himself said&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I have not been disciplined&period;” Jimenez says&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I’ve always denied these accusations and I’m sticking to that&period; I did not sexually harass anyone”&comma; he maintains&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Asked to justify the principal&&num;8217&semi;s continued stay on the job&comma; DOE spokesman Doug Cohen said the settlement does not confirm wrongdoing&comma;”  Cohen said&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Cohen added&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Cases are often resolved beyond the time-frame when DOE is legally able to impose discipline&period;”&comma; while pointing out the school’s 96 percent graduation rate as evidence that Jimenez is &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;effective&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;12500190" class&equals;"wp-caption alignright"><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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