A Camden woman has filed a civil suit against a man convicted of sexually assaulting her, as well as her attacker’s employers.
The woman’s name is not being released because she is the victim of sexual assault.
Her attacker, Bradley Lemay, is currently serving a 65-year sentence at the Maine State Prison in Warren. The employers are Corey Prock, of Nobleboro, and Lise Prock, of Randolph.
When Lemay sexually assaulted the woman in her home while working for the Procks, he had multiple prior convictions for violent sexual assault. The suit alleges that when the Procks hired Lemay and brought him to the woman’s home, they knowingly exposed her to a dangerous sexual predator
According to the initial complaint, filed in Knox County Superior Court on March 2, in 2008, the woman hired the Procks to do various jobs at properties she owned in Camden, including landscaping, mowing and general cleaning.
The Procks at various times brought employees to work with them on the woman’s properties.
In the spring of 2010, the Procks brought Lemay to work on the woman’s property, and introduced Lemay to her. They did not mention Lemay’s history of violent sexual assault, burglary and kidnapping, according to the suit. In February 2010, Lemay had been released from prison after serving a 21-year prison sentence.
In June 2010, Lemay entered the woman’s home, assaulted her, raped her and threatened to kill her.
A year later, in June 2011, when Lemay was found guilty of gross sexual assault, criminal threatening with a dangerous weapon, eluding police and tampering with a victim, it was his third conviction for gross sexual assault. He was sentenced to 65 years in prison for the attack.
Now, the woman is suing the Procks because she alleges they failed to inform her of Lemay’s past, and they failed to provide reasonable supervision of an employee they should have known posed a risk to their clients, according to the suit.
“As a direct … result of the concealment by the Procks, the Plaintiff suffered serious injuries and damages,” according to the suit. “The Procks also knew or should have known [Lemay] had a propensity for violence.”
The woman has not requested a specific amount of compensation, but instead that damages, including punitive damages, be determined by trial.
