*Golden Krust franchise owner Stanley Dennis is facing claims he sexually harassed and assaulted a former employee.
According to New York Daily News, Dennis, 64, was sued in federal court in Brooklyn this week by an unidentified cashier.
The woman claims that when she started working for Dennis in 2015, it didn’t take long before he started harassing her with “inappropriate” questions about her personal life.
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via New York Daily News:
She says she became “increasingly uncomfortable” around Dennis but needed her job and ultimately agreed to help him remodel a store on Church Avenue in Prospect Park South in March 2017 after he “demanded” her assistance.
She claims Dennis attacked her without warning at the location, “aggressively” pulling her by the arm into his office for a “brutal” assault.
“Upon successfully forcing plaintiff inside, defendant Dennis then threw plaintiff in a chair. Defendant Dennis then squeezed plaintiff’s legs together with his legs, locking them in place,” the lawsuit obtained by the Daily News reads.
The woman, who was 31 at the time, claims she tried to fight Dennis off, pushing and “slapping” him in an effort to escape.
Dennis allegedly held her down as he lifted up her shirt, pulled down her bra and tried to suck on plaintiff’s exposed nipple. The lawsuit alleges that he then “attempted to untie plaintiff’s sweatpants and put his hand down plaintiff’s pants.”
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The woman finally broke free and ran out of the office, according to the complaint.
When reached by The News on Thursday, Dennis said he hadn’t read the lawsuit yet.
“My attorney called me (about it), but I have not seen it,” he said. “I don’t know where it’s going. I don’t know where it came from. I’m not going to get into it unless advised by my attorney.”
According to the report, Dennis owns several Golden Krust restaurants in Brooklyn and is related to the company’s founding family.
The company was founded by Jamaica-born Lowell Hawthorne in the Bronx in 1989. He died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound last December inside his Bronx factory.
The parent company is also a named defendant in the lawsuit.
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