Jeffrey Dean of Salisbury is suing the Berlin Fire Company for a half a million dollars.
The former paramedic who served from 2005 to 2013 claims that he was harassed and experienced retaliation.
In the end, he says, it all led to his termination.
The Salisbury Daily Times reports that Dean claims Zackery Tyndall was assigned to him and was told to teach him to ”keep his mouth shut”.
The lawsuit says that Tyndall was subject to nonconsensual physical sexual contact, harassment and retaliation by fire company members who believed he was gay.
The paper reports that by the fall of 2012 Dean said that he had become physically ill from the stress and went on medical leave.
Just before he was ready to return to work he suffered multiple injuries in a traffic accident with his son.
He was eventually terminated.
Meanwhile, Tyndall was fired and filed a lawsuit against the Berlin Fire Company.
It was settled for an undisclosed amount in 2015.
