A married 911 operator was canned just months after suing her boss for sexual harassment — but Pennsylvania officials said she’d been having an affair with her supervisor for years.
Maille Russell Bonsall, an assistant 911 coordinator in Delaware County, was fired late last month after officials accused her of illegally recording conversations with her superiors — some of whom she claimed retaliated against her after she reported the abuse, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Filed in federal court last November, the explosive lawsuit accused former county emergency services director Tim Boyce of subjecting Bonsall to “unwanted verbal, physical and sexual harassment during and after work hours” that included masturbating in front of her in his office, the outlet said.
She reported the abuse, but Boyce’s successors allegedly retaliated by ignoring her and cutting off her access to critical systems.
The county, however, told a far different story: Officials say Bonsall and Boyce had a “longstanding romantic relationship” that involved sending nudes and sexually explicit texts to each other on county-issued cell phones, the Inquirer said.
Not only was there no evidence the 40-year-old married mom hated Boyce’s advances — she even texted him several times saying that she loved him, court filings show.
County investigators also found that she’d joked with her maybe-possibly paramour about being high on the job, wrongly changed her timecard and refused to participate in an investigation into her retaliation complaints.
Her attorney, Mark Schwartz, denied his client had any such relationship with Boyce and stood by the suit’s allegations, the outlet said.
He also said the county’s decision to let her go was retaliatory and intended to punish her for reporting the abuse.

The 61-year-old Boyce is in hot water as it is, however.
The county fired him in May, and he’s heading toward a criminal trial on charges of indecent assault and harassment after two other employees accused him of sexual misconduct, the Inquirer said.
One woman said he forcibly kissed her in his office, while another said he made lewd comments and groped her.
Boyce has pleaded not guilty in both cases.
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