New Jersey Woman Claims She Was Raped by Trenton Police Officer Who Killed Himself


TRENTON, NJ, – A homeless woman has filed a civil lawsuit against the city police department, several unnamed cops, and former Officer Edward Leopardi who died by suicide last year.

In a lawsuit that was filed two weeks ago, the woman claims she was raped by Leopardi, and that other cops allowed it to happen.

Although the woman’s name is publicly listed in the lawsuit, which The Trentonian obtained through a public records request, this newspaper does not disclose the name of sexual assault victims unless given expressed permission to do so. The woman’s complaint says she was an “itinerant, displaced resident of Mercer County” at the time of the alleged rape. The woman’s attorney declined to comment for this report.

In her complaint, the plaintiff says she was walking on South Clinton Avenue around 10:30 p.m. on August 23, 2016, when Leopardi picked her up. She further states that Leopardi “ordered” the woman to get in his TPD patrol car before driving her to the K-9 school in the 1200 block of East State Street.

Leopardi then “ushered” the woman into the TPD K-9 school “in a manner meant to evade detection from the property surveillance cameras,” and then “forced” the woman to “commit various sexual acts against her will,” according to the lawsuit.

Leopardi “committed rape and other unwanted sexual acts against the plaintiff, causing physical and emotional trauma, mental anguish, post traumatic stress disorder and irreparable damage to her reputation, history and esteem,” the lawsuit says.

The complaint further states that “the police was and had been aware of a long history of derelict behavior by rogue Trenton Police officers” at the K-9 school.

“Police had not expended reasonable foresight to anticipate and prevent such derelict behavior,” the lawsuit says.

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