Former Glen Rock cop Eric Reamy is in prison after pleading guilty to child endangerment.
GLEN ROCK - A teenager has sued the borough, its police department and a former police detective who she claims sent her 189 text messages - many of them sexually suggestive - after she was arrested in 2015.
Eric Reamy, 52, a former police officer and juvenile detective, pleaded guilty in March 2016 to using his department-issued cellphone to send sexually explicit texts to a 14-year-old girl and a 17-year-old girl. He is serving a three-year sentence for child endangerment and will be eligible for parole in September.
The 17-year-old, whose name was withheld in court papers, claims she was arrested as a juvenile in May 2015 for attempting to purchase alcohol with a driver's license that was not hers.
After her arrest, the teen was assigned to be managed and supervised by Reamy, according to the lawsuit filed Jan. 13 in Bergen County Superior Court.
"Instead of just managing and processing her case in the usual way, Eric Reamy embarked upon an unsolicited, illegal series of gender-based, gender-discriminatory actions," the suit states.
Reamy sent the girl a total of 189 texts, "many of which were sexually suggestive, sexually explicit and filled with entreaties to have sexual encounters," the suit states.
"Can I say you're hot?" and "Did you think I'd call and start sexting right away???? Hahaha," were among the texts sent, according to news coverage of the case.
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The teen claims in the lawsuit that she felt pressured to cooperate and "play his sexual games" due to his authority as a police officer.
The girl claims she suffered emotional pain, anxiety and depression and has been seeing a psychiatrist to "cope with the awful aftermath of what happened," according to the suit.
Reamy violated the girl's civil rights and rights afforded to her under the New Jersey Constitution, according to the suit.
The suit claims borough officials and the Glen Rock Police Department are guilty of negligent hiring, supervision and retention of Reamy as an employee, claiming officials knew about other allegations of impropriety but did not intervene.
An attorney for Reamy could not be reached for comment.
Glen Rock Borough Administrator Lenora Benjamin declined to comment.
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