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, 46, is currently serving a 5-year probation revocation at the Maine State Prison in Warren. When that term is up, he will begin a 55-year sentence for assaulting the woman.
The employers named in the suit are Corey Prock, of Nobleboro, and Lise Prock (also known as Lisa Brockett), of Randolph. They could not be reached for comment.
When Lemay sexually assaulted the woman in her home in June 2010, he had multiple prior convictions for violent sexual assault and kidnapping. 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.
Lemay’s criminal history dates back to a conviction for rape and burglary when he was a juvenile. Six years later, in 1989, he was convicted of kidnapping and gross sexual assault. He served 21 years of a 35-year sentence for those convictions. He was released in February 2010.
Just four months after his release from prison, Lemay entered the woman’s home at night, assaulted her, raped her at knifepoint and threatened to kill her. At Lemay’s sentencing, the judge reportedly described the attack as a “horrific four-hour ordeal.”
At the time of his conviction, Lemay reportedly maintained the encounter with the woman was consensual.
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 such conviction. He was sentenced to 55 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.
In the next month or so, the defendants will be served and file an answer to the allegations. Once they’ve filed an answer, the court will set a schedule for the suit.
