Haddock v. City of New York
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
*93OPINION OF THE COURT
Ellerin, J.
This action was brought to recover damages for traumatic injuries suffered by plaintiff when, as a nine-year-old child, she was repeatedly raped and terrorized by a New York City Parks Department utility worker. The basis asserted for the City of New York’s liability is that despite having knowledge of the worker’s extensive history of violent and recidivist criminal activity, including convictions for rape offenses, the city negligently retained him to work, almost totally unsupervised, at the children’s playground where the rape occurred. A prior judgment in…
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