An elderly Polish man is suing police for $500,000 after a conniving crack addict contrived to have him arrested for sexually assaulting her.

Marian Andrzejewski's simple act of kindness -- a box of odds and ends he gave away to reduce the clutter in his Rochester St. apartment -- had horrible consequences, his statement of claim alleges.

Filed Wednesday, it tells how the 75-year-old artist spent 75 days in jail when cops took the word of a lying, aging addict who had tried to extort money from him.

After taking Andrzejewski's box of goods, the lawsuit claims the woman returned and demanded money.

The 49-year-old woman offered up her body, but Andrzejewski declined.

She then got violent and damaged his apartment before Andrzejewski managed to get rid of her, it's alleged -- only to return with her thug son and another man who was "probably her boyfriend."

They worked him over in his own apartment, leaving him bloodied and bruised on the floor.

Voice quavering, Andrzejewski managed to call 911 only to speak to a rude and dismissive operator who never used translation services despite his obviously poor English.

The cops came at last.

But they arrested Andrzejewski.

The woman had gotten to them first, affecting a dishevelled appearance and crying rape.

Cops charged him with sexual assault and forcible confinement, even lauding her thug son as a "good Samaritan" at trial, according to the statement of claim.

They never bothered to find out who the second man was, it's alleged.

Even before it went to trial, Andrzejewski spent nearly three months in jail, banged up with rapists and murderers, "though he was a senior citizen with no criminal record."

At his bail hearing he said the police did not tell the justice of the peace that the woman had 71 prior police contacts.

And at trial it emerged she had allegedly tried to extort cash from a parishioner by threatening to tell his church he had sexually assaulted her.

The woman cannot be identified because she was an alleged victim of sexual assault.

To add insult to injury, Andrzejewski says he appeared before the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board in August 2013 -- after his acquittal -- only to watch as a police detective repeated the allegations that had been made against him "and maintained that he is guilty of both sexual assault and forcible confinement."

tony.spears@sunmedia.ca

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