Officers reaching for her crotch in a patrol car, kissing and fondling her in police headquarters and being accused of sending anonymous, retaliatory letters are among the accusations a Branchburg police officer lists in a sexual harassment against her police department and town.

Kate Proscia-Berger, 39, has worked as a police officer in Branchburg since 2002, and has endured a barrage of sexual harassment and assaults from several her superior male officers, her suit says.

Proscia-Berger filed a six-count suit in Superior Court in Warren County, where she lives, in Phillipsburg, claiming sexual harassment, a hostile work environment, retaliation and failure to promote, gender discrimination, assault and battery, and aiding and abetting.

She names Branchburg police Lt. Peter Crisafulli and sergeants Manuel Camunas, Corey Floyd and Thomas Meola as the harassers.

Other women have also been subject to harassment by officers in the police department, according to Proscia-Berger’s attorney, Alan Genitempo of Piro Zinna Cifelli Paris & Genitempo.

“This is the kind of thing that goes on all too often in male-dominated professions,” Genitempo said. “There seems to be no penalties for those accused of these egregious violations. Hopefully this suit will bring forth some change.”

Branchburg’s township administrator did not immediately return request for comment.

Floyd is accused of asking Proscia-Berger to have sex with him since 2002, telling her of his needs for sex, kissing her with his tongue and groping her. She says he reached her her crotch in a patrol car.

She accuses Crisafulli of making comments about how she was in his dreams, about her physique and that he too wanted to have sex with her. On one occasion, he stood in the doorway of the locker room touching his genital area telling Proscia-Berger he needed to be touched sexually, the suit alleges.

According to the suit, when Proscia-Berger reported the continuous harassment and assaults to her supervisor, Meola, who responded by saying he was upset with her and said nothing could be done because it was a “he said, she said” allegation.

Furthermore, Proscia-Berger says that Meola retaliated against by telling the police chief she wrote anonymous letters criticizing the chief in order to discredit her complaints by other officers.

As a result of reporting the sexual harassment, Proscia-Berger says she was also passed up a number of times on promotions and had to watch as junior officers surpassed her despite her consistently positive annual reviews.

A female superior officer, Sgt. Christine Auleta, told Proscia-Berger that Auleta was bullied by Crisafulli into voting against Proscia-Berger for a promotion, the suit alleges.

After Auleta voted for Proscia-Berger’s promotion anyway, Crisafulli told Auleta it was a “f--- you” to the police department.

Taylor Tiamoyo Harris may be reached at tharris@njadvancemedia.com. Find NJ.com on Facebook.

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