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   https://nypost.com/2024/11/03/us-news/worker-openly-ran-rape-room-   
   assaulted-employees-in-clothing-company-french-connections-nyc-factory-   
   suit/   
      
   A sicko textile worker ran a “rape room” at the Queens factory of a major   
   British clothing brand where he openly preyed on female colleagues, a   
   shocking new lawsuit claims.   
      
   Greenpoint resident Aleksandra Pietras said the depraved male co-worker   
   began attacking her just weeks after she started working at the factory   
   operated by the French Connection, sexually assaulting her dozens of times   
   for over a year, according to her suit filed Sunday.   
      
   “I never thought something like this would happen to me,” Pietras, 60,   
   told The Post in an emotional interview. “This man destroyed my life.”   
      
   The worker, Jose Sabando, 45, allegedly dragged Pietras to remote parts of   
   the Hollis factory to assault her, until he eventually broke off a padlock   
   to an empty room, where he continued to unleash his torment, the suit   
   states.   
      
   Inside the room, where Pietras says she was raped at least four more   
   times, the floor was covered in handprints and fluids, according to the   
   suit and photographs shared with The Post.   
      
   The “brutal” man’s behavior was so well known in the factory that the   
   largely female and Polish employees even told each other to avoid him as   
   he lurked in the hallways during work hours, waiting for women to walk by,   
   the suit states.   
      
   At least four other Polish co-workers were victimized, Pietras’ suit   
   claims, and the factory supervisors allegedly either knew or willfully   
   ignored the worker’s reign of sexual terror.   
      
   Pietras was fired days after she threatened to go to the police unless he   
   stopped, states her Brooklyn Supreme Court lawsuit, which names Sabando,   
   factory supervisors and the French Company as defendants.   
      
   Speaking through her lawyer who translated from her native Polish, Pietras   
   said she’s now scared to even leave her home.   
      
   “It was the worst year of my life,” the distraught woman said. “I don’t   
   know how long it will take to put my life back together.”   
      
   Responding to a message left at his home by a reporter Sunday, Sabando   
   called the accusations “lies,” and provided a photo of the two of them   
   smiling.   
      
   He says he was sacked from the factory two weeks ago, and admits to an   
   affair but says the allegations are “all made up out of jealousy,” and   
   claims she was actually fired for harassing another Polish co-worker.   
      
   “Because of her, I lost my job,” Sabando told a Post reporter via text   
   message   
      
   Pietras’s lawyer, Nicole Brenecki, said that the image depicts when   
   Sabando followed her after work to the airport prior to a trip to Poland,   
   calling it an example of his “grooming.”   
      
   “Regardless of Jose’s attempted efforts to shift the blame to Aleksandra,”   
   Brenecki said, “the sexual intercourse at the French Connection Factory   
   was non-consensual and factory management did nothing to either prevent   
   these acts from taking place, or otherwise investigate this matter, prior   
   to Aleksandra’s wrongful termination.”   
      
   Pietras began working her minimum wage job as a textile worker at the   
   factory for the French Connection — a clothing company known for their   
   provocative FCUK branding — on Jamaica Avenue in June 2023.   
      
   “I really enjoyed the work,” she said.   
      
   Right away, she noticed Sabando, a gregarious fellow textile worker who   
   would talk and joke with everyone, including her, Pietras said.   
      
   A few weeks into the job, Sabando “began following and accosting” her   
   during work hours, the lawsuit claims.   
      
   “I was walking down the stairs from one floor to another,” Pietras   
   recalled of the first alleged incident, “and he appeared from behind a   
   column.”   
      
   Without saying a word, Pietras said he suddenly forcibly grabbed her and   
   started kissing her, putting his tongue in her mouth.   
      
   “I became extremely scared. I was in shock,” she said. “No man has ever   
   done anything like this to me before… I felt like I’m dealing with a wild   
   man.”   
      
   Pietras was worried that “I was gonna get fired if I say [sic] anything.”   
      
   During that first alleged rape, as she fought to free herself, she   
   recalled him telling her: “I love you.”   
      
   From that point on, Sabando “began forcefully dragging [Pietras] into a   
   space located behind a column within an empty hallway on the second floor   
   of the French Connection Factory,” where he would “repeatedly force her to   
   have sexual intercourse,” the lawsuit states.   
      
   The brutal attacks would last five minutes or so until he finished, and   
   typically occurred near the end of her shift, Pietras said, when the   
   factory would be less crowded.   
      
   “I was walking towards the subway and crying hysterically all the way   
   home,” Pietras told The Post.   
      
   From that moment on, the horrific alleged rapes became a regular part of   
   work for Pietras, who said she was violated  “dozens” of times between   
   that summer and the end of 2023.   
      
   She refused to take breaks at work to avoid leaving the factory floor, she   
   told The Post, and her searches for a new job were fruitless.   
      
   “I wanted to have the job,” Pietras said, saying that she really liked the   
   work.   
      
   “I’m gonna try to power through and be strong,” she recalled telling a   
   close friend who had urged her to quit.   
      
   Her seasonal work ended that November and Pietras traveled back to Poland   
   for a few months until last spring, when she returned to New York City and   
   to the factory.   
      
   Pietras said that’s when “it turned into a real nightmare.”   
      
   While she was in Poland, Sabando had allegedly smashed open a padlocked   
   door in the factory where he now brought his victims — and where Pietras   
   “observed multiple handprints and liquids on the floors and walls,” the   
   suit claims.   
      
   She couldn’t eat for days after the alleged attacks, which she said  “were   
   the most violent and aggressive.”   
      
   “I lost 20 pounds,” she said, noting that pants that she had just bought   
   in Poland now barely fit her waist.   
      
   Pietras started opening up to her Polish co-workers and  learned that   
   Sabando’s abuse was an open secret and that past victims had ended up   
   being fired once the violent creep grew tired of them, the suit claims.   
      
   Sabando’s girlfriend, who worked at a different company in the same   
   building, “appeared at the French Connection Factory multiple times during   
   [Pietras’] shifts, screamed at her, and called her a ‘whore’ in front of   
   multiple coworkers and supervisors,” according to the filing.   
      
   “She says that ‘you’re not the first one. They always do this to him —   
   they always come and bother him, and you’re just another one,’” Pietras   
   said the girlfriend would tell her.   
      
   Pietras’ co-workers said that was part of the smear campaign to build a   
   case against her — that would paint Sabando as the victim of Pietras’   
   sexual predation.   
      
      
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