former assistant Tim Boyce, Delaware County’s longtime He repeatedly kissed, grabbed, groped and masturbated in front of her in his office, the emergency room manager said in a lawsuit filed Friday.

Maille Bonsal said Boyce: He was fired in May He routinely subjected her to “unwelcome verbal, physical and sexual harassment during and after working hours” after two other women accused him of sexual harassment and inappropriate touching.

According to the lawsuit filed against Delaware County on Friday, Boyce once forced himself into his vehicle outside of work and once tempted her to drink champagne, which he believed had been drugged. The lawsuit states that county officials knew about Boyce’s inappropriate behavior and did nothing about it.

The harassment began when Boyce hired her in 2019 and only ended when she was fired amid a criminal investigation into her treatment of two other female employees.

Bonsall’s attorney, Mark Schwartz, wrote in the lawsuit that he did his best to keep his boss away.

“Her goal was to survive and get through each day, finding new ways to keep him away from her,” Schwartz said. “He was numb and detached from his situation with the vain hope of preventing something worse.”

The lawsuit names Delaware County Council members and other high-ranking county officials and alleges that they “facilitated and protected Boyce when it came to his known and inappropriate sexual conduct.”

In a statement Friday, a district spokesperson said officials would not comment on pending litigation but “take the safety, respect and well-being of all employees seriously.”

“The District is committed to fostering a workplace that supports these standards, where harassment, discrimination and retaliation are neither tolerated nor ignored,” the spokesperson said.

Last month, another woman, Jacqueline Kahler, filed a federal lawsuit against Boyce with similar allegations. Kahler said in the suit that Boyce called her into his office and tried to kiss her. When she rejected him, the man in the suit said: “You have a really nice ass. Let me feel it,” he said and groped her as he walked away.

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Boyce has been charged with indecent assault and related offenses against Kahler, and that case is pending in Delaware District Court. She is also accused of assaulting another former employee, who claims he lifted her skirt and asked her what sexual positions she preferred.

Andrew Edelberg, An attorney who represented Boyce in criminal casesHe said in a statement Friday that Bonsall’s allegations were “completely fabricated.”

“All the facts will be revealed at the hearing,” he said. “This is another unconfirmed and unproven situation,” he said.

According to Bonsall’s lawsuit, Boyce acted as if the two were in a relationship and frequently told her that he loved her and understood her better than her husband. The lawsuit said Boyce gave her money and expensive gifts despite her objections, and she refused his attempts to return them.

In September 2019, Boyce invited Bonsall to a conference in New York City, saying other county staff would attend, but no one else showed up, according to the lawsuit. After driving them into town, Boyce forcibly kissed her, complained about her marriage and suggested they “get a room,” the lawsuit said. She rejected his advances and asked him to take her home, according to the lawsuit.

On the way back to Delaware County, Bonsall said Boyce stopped at a rest stop and pushed her into the backseat of his vehicle, where he put his hands down her pants.

In later years, she said, other members of the emergency department treated her poorly because of rumors that she and Boyce were having an affair.

She said she witnessed how Boyce belittled sexual harassment complaints made by other female employees about male co-workers. But he was “too scared to speak up because of (Boyce’s) authority and his fear of losing his job,” according to the lawsuit.

According to the lawsuit, Boyce exposed himself to Bonsall on more than one occasion and masturbated while Bonsall worked on the computer in his office. He sometimes asked her to participate in a sex act, according to the lawsuit.

According to the lawsuit, as Boyce was preparing to leave the office to attend a wedding in July 2023, he came into Bonsall’s office and handed her a coffee mug filled with champagne. He repeatedly asked her to drink it, called her a “bad girl” and asked if he should “punish her” when she refused, the lawsuit said.

He drank some to calm her down, then woke up hours later with blank memories and disorientation. The lawsuit stated that Boyce left the office at that time and believed Boyce had drugged him.

Bonsall said workplace mistreatment continued even after Boyce was fired. According to the lawsuit, Boyce’s successor and other county employees made his job more difficult by changing Boyce’s access to certain computer systems and functions.