Belleville Township agreed to pay $235,000 to a former court administrator, who was allegedly subject to a hostile workplace that included being squirted with breast milk.

The lawsuit named the municipality; Kevin Esposito, the interim township manager at the time of some of the allegations; and court employees Yara Acosta and Roberta Almeida, as defendants.

Cheryl Jeannette, a 31-year township employee, alleged that Acosta and Almeida “eagerly flaunted the intimate details of their sexual relationships with other township employees,” for which the two court workers were given preferential treatment and promotions. Acosta and Almeida openly dated Belleville Police Department employees and discussed what sex acts they performed, according to court documents.

Jeannette repeatedly caught Almeida and a police department employee “making out” during work hours in the court’s hallways, the lawsuit stated.

“The most shocking instance occurred in 2009, when Ms. Almeida intentionally exposed her breast and excreted breast milk on [Jeannette],” the lawsuit alleged. Jeannette was the deputy court administrator at that time.

Jeannette filed a complaint against Almeida for the alleged inappropriate conduct, but after a short suspension, Almeida was promoted to acting deputy court administrator while Acosta was on maternity leave, according to litigation.

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Jennette also assisted in an investigation of an alleged job-related infraction against Acosta, according to the documents.

After Jeannette was appointed court administrator in 2010, the township “strummed up numerous inflated, inappropriate and retaliatory disciplinary charges against her,” the lawsuit claimed.

As Jeanette’s subordinates, Acosta and Almeida refused to follow instructions and called their supervisor “puta,” loosely translated as “slut” or “whore” in Spanish, the lawsuit stated. Almeida also repeatedly told Jeannette that she planned to perform sex acts on the administrator’s young son, the court filing alleged.

The lawsuit also accused the township of age-discrimination. Almeida and Acosta told Jeanette that she was “behind the times,” and “when she was gone, they would no longer do things the ‘old’ way,” the document stated.

Additionally, the township failed to pay about $101,654 in back pay, owed to her after her Sept. 2, 2014, resignation, Jeannette claimed.

The lawsuit, filed in 2015, was settled last September.

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