New York City Mayor Eric Adams has been accused in a legal filing of sexually assaulting a woman in 1993.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has been accused of sexually assaulting a woman in 1993, according to a legal summons filed Wednesday.

The three-page filing does not contain details of the alleged assault but names Adams, the transit bureau of the New York Police Department and the New York Police Department Guardians Association as defendants.

“Plaintiff was sexually assaulted by Defendant Eric Adams in New York, New York in 1993 while they both worked for the City of New York,” the summons reads.

The filing seeks a trial and $5 million in relief. It was filed in state Supreme Court in Manhattan. The woman’s attorney did not immediately return an emailed request for comment on Thursday.

  • stifle867
    9·
    1 year ago

    It’s due to the Adult Survivors Act as referred to in the article and I believe that was ending on Thanksgiving Day so really close to the cut off point too.

    • n2burns@lemmy.ca
      3·
      1 year ago

      Yes, from the article

      The summons was filed under the Adult Survivors Act, a special New York law that created a year-long suspension of the usual time limit to sue over an alleged sexual assault. The suit against Adams was filed just before the window to bring cases under the law was scheduled to close after Thanksgiving.

      • stifle867
        11·
        1 year ago

        Thanks, somehow I missed the 2nd part to that and actually went and did some searches to find out more about thay act. Feeling slightly silly haha