Gisselle Vasquez Wiki - Gisselle Vasquez Biography
Gisselle Vasquez, a single mom, was hired as a Spanish-speaking secretary for Principal Evelina Medina, 42, at the Robert C. Dodson School, an 865-student magnet school five minutes from Scarsdale. But Medina soon pushed her to do far more than clerical work, the Manhattan federal court papers claim.
On May 24, 2018, Medina texted Vasquez a photo of a man lying in bed in his underwear, and instructed Vasquez to save the photo for her on her own phone, court papers state. To this day I don’t understand what would make her so comfortable to ask me to do that for her,” Vasquez told The Post, explaining that the women were not friends. “I wondered if I don’t do this what would be the repercussions for me at work. I’m a single parent and I thought what would happen if I said no.”
The next day, Medina ushered the secretary into the school office and ordered her to take a photo of her. “She hands me the phone and says, ‘Close the door,'” Vasquez told The Post. Medina then proceeded to lower her pants to her ankles, turned around and exposed her buttocks in thong underwear and posed,” according to court papers.
“When I looked back her pants were already down,” Vasquez recalled. “I was shocked. I didn’t know what to think. I really just froze. I worried that if I just left her office there could be a student or employee or anyone there. Her office is in the main office and there is a lot of traffic. Medina then texted the nearly bare-butt image to Vasquez’s cell phone and asked her if should could help “edit” them, the complaint says. “She wanted to smooth out the dimples … her cellulite,” Vasquez told The Post.
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Five days later, on May 29, the principal texted Vasquez another Se**x shot — this time of a man lying in bed holding his erect penis, the complaint alleges. Medina “instructed” Vasquez to save that photo for her too. On more than one occasion, Medina made comments about her lover’s penis size and how it satisfied her more despite being smaller than her husband’s penis size,” the suit says.
“Medina used my client as her own personal drop-box to keep the Se**xy pictures away from her [Medina’s] husband,” said attorney Christopher Berlingieri. “Due to the serious nature of the Se**xual harassment here, we felt that there was no other option but to bring a civil action.”
The federal suit charges that Medina on several occasions showed Vasquez her iPhone and told her to read the X**X**X-rated Se**xts she and her lover had exchanged. I don’t know why she wanted me to read it. Maybe she didn’t have friends or family to confide in?” Vasquez told The Post. “I don’t know why she thought it was OK. Maybe because she thought I was just her secretary and I wasn’t going to say or do anything.”
In June, Medina allegedly directed Vasquez to book a hotel room in Yonkers using Vasquez’ credit card for the purposes of a rendezvous with her lover, the suit says. The suit does not name the alleged lover, and the explicit images and texts were not filed as case exhibits but were shared with The Post.
The principal invited Vasquez and Sandra Guzman, an assistant principal at Dodson, to happy hour after work, and her “lover and his brother” showed up. Medina told Vasquez that she should date her lover’s brother, the suit says. Vasquez told The Post she believes Medina wanted “cover” for her dalliance.
Vasquez “felt uncomfortable during this encounter and ultimately told Medina that she had to leave,” the complaint says. Vasquez finally complained to a supervising clerk “about inappropriate things going on. Rather than set up a meeting, [the supervisor] merely responded to just put in a request for transfer,” the complaint says.
On Aug. 9, Vasquez did just that, but “received no response” from HR, the suit says. The next month, the sleazy directives continued, with Medina ordering Vasquez to buy her black lingerie during her lunch break “because she had a date later in the city,” the complaint alleges. Medina gave Vasquez $50 and told her to go to the Romantic Depot adult store.
An “intimidated and uncomfortable” Vasquez decided she was not going to make the purchase and instead returned the money to Medina after lunch, telling her she “could not find anything,” the suit says. Medina grew increasingly bold in what she shared with her secretary, and would even demonstrate some of her Se**x moves. The educator “forcefully grabbed [Vasquez] by the neck and throat to show her what she wanted to do with her lover,” the complaint states.
In the fall of 2018, Vasquez interviewed for a position at Roosevelt High School in the district and met with the principal there. The following day, Medina approached Vasquez and asked her why she applied for a transfer and informed her she spoke with the Roosevelt principal and advised him not to hire Vasquez, the court papers allege.
The suit alleges that Medina was not the only high-ranking educator harassing her.
Court papers say that AP Guzman would joke that Vasquez probably didn’t have Se**x a lot, and Christopher Cassano, another Dodson assistant principal, allegedly asked her, “Have you ever done drugs?” and “How often do you have Se**x?”
One day while Vasquez was in the main office working the after-school program with Cassano, Medina called the office from her car and allegedly told Vasquez “You should give him some.” Vasquez then asked Medina, “Give him what?” Medina responded, “You know what.”
On March 29, 2019, “Cassano leaned in and attempted to kiss [Vasquez] on the lips in the back of the main office while plaintiff was washing a plate,” the suit charges. Vasquez asked Cassano what he was doing and backed away.
“He said, ‘I shouldn’t have done that,’ ” Vasquez told The Post. On April 10, Vasquez complained to Medina about Cassano and the following day filed a complaint with human resources, the suit says. Vasquez followed up on April 17 with an email to the Superindentent of Schools Edwin Quezada complaining about feeling “extremely uncomfortable at Dodson” and requested a transfer, the suit says.
He “merely replied, ‘Thank you.’ “
Vasquez later learned that a teacher at Dodson had a copy of her complaint on her cell phone and was showing it to other employees, the suit says. In April 2019, she was transferred to the Cesar E. Chavez School. But it was in retaliation, the suit alleges, and she was given a different position with a different schedule and different job title.
“I think the move was made in case they were sued. They were looking to cover their asses,” she told The Post.
Vasquez’ new hours “were difficult’ because of her childcare obligations and in July 2019 she began to see a psychiatrist “due to the Se**xual harassment caused by Medina, Cassano and Guzman,” the complaint charges. In November 2019, Human Resources told Vazquez her complaints were unfounded and HR considered the investigation “completed and closed.”
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During the pandemic, in August 2020, she requested a “reasonable accommodation to work remotely from home due to her disabilities of asthma, heart murmur and anxiety” and included a doctor’s note, the suit says. Her request was denied.
Vasquez has been out on family leave. My professionalism exceeds the expectations of that facility,” Vasquez told The Post. “To this day I can’t believe that this happened to me. I didn’t see it coming. It’s disturbing. I’m disgusted and embarrassed.”
Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano named Dodson as his school of the month for March 2018, gushing that “under the leadership of Principal Evelina Medina, [it] is setting the bar in terms of academic achievement and community engagement.”
The lawsuit names the city of Yonkers, the school district, the Dodson and Chavez schools, Medina, assistant principals Cassano and Guzman, and Superintendent Quezada as defendants. It seeks “uncapped” and unspecified damages. Medina, who made $163,000 in 2019, according to public records, is no longer principal at Dodson. A man answering her phone hung up when a reporter called, and text messages were not returned.
The school district said it would not comment on “pending litigation” and refused to give the circumstances of Medina leaving her Dodson post. Cassano and Guzman could not be reached.
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