Crime & Safety

Police Sergeant Named in Sexual Harassment Lawsuit Resigns

Town and Country Police Sergeant Chip Unterberg, who was named in a sexual harassment lawsuit filed against the City of Town and Country resigned.

 Captain Gary Hoelzer tells Sergeant Chip Unterberg resigned from the department. He worked for the police department from April 25, 1989 to May 17, 2012, according to Hoelzer.

"He resigned just to pursue a career in the private sector," Hoelzer tells Patch.

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The resignation comes months after former over the 10 years that she worked for the department. Unterberg was named in that lawsuit.

Woolsey filed the sexual harassment suit against the  in March after quitting her job in May 2011. In court documents included in this article, Woolsey alleges that several members of the Town and Country police department made highly inappropriate and sexual comments to her. She also alleges that supervisors did little to stop the harassment despite her complaints. Unterberg, who was one of Woolsey's supervisors according to court documents, was also named in the suit as a perpetrator of such inapproporate comments.

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Hoelzer said Unterberg's resignation is not in connection to the lawsuit.

The Town and Country Police Department has never commented on the suit itself, but has referred Patch to its attorney Chris Hesse who has not returned Patch's calls for a comment on the matter.

Dobson, Goldberg, Berns & Rich, LLP is representing Woolsey. Associate attorney Meredith Berwick told Patch they are requesting $25,000 in damages in order to present the case at the circuit court level. If they win the suit, any amount awarded will be set by a jury and would include lost wages, emotional damages, possibly punitive damages and attorney's fees.

Berwick was unavailable for comment late Wednesday evening.

UPDATE: Berwick contacted Patch after this article was published and said she and her client, Woolsey, have no comment on the resignation and that the case is still in litigation.

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*EDITOR'S NOTE: Patch writer Denise Bertacchi contributed to this report.


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