A former assistant to Tim Boyce, formerly of Delaware County director of emergency services, said in a lawsuit Friday that he repeatedly kissed, grabbed and groped her and masturbated in front of her in his office.

Maille Bonsal said Boyce, who was fired in May after two other women accused him of sexual harassment and inappropriate touching, they routinely subjected her to “unwanted verbal, physical and sexual harassment during and after work hours.”

Off duty, Boyce once forced her into his vehicle and once forced her to drink champagne he believed was laced, according to the lawsuit filed Friday against Delaware County. The lawsuit says county officials knew about Boyce’s inappropriate behavior and did nothing about it.

The abuse began when Boyce hired her in 2019 and only ended when he was fired amid a criminal investigation into how he treated two other female employees.

Bonsall’s attorney, Mark Schwartz, wrote in the suit that he did his best to keep his boss at bay.

“Her goal was just to survive and get through each day, finding new ways to keep him away from her,” Schwartz said. “She became numb and dissociated from her circumstances in the vain hope of avoiding something worse.”

The lawsuit names members of the Delaware County Board and other high-level county officials, saying they “facilitated and protected Boyce in his well-known and inappropriate sexual conduct.”

In a statement Friday, a county spokesman said officials would not comment on pending litigation but that they take “the safety, respect and well-being of all employees” seriously.

“The county is steadfast in its commitment to foster a workplace that meets these standards, where harassment, discrimination and retaliation are neither tolerated nor ignored,” the spokesperson said.

Last month, another woman, Jacqueline Kahler, filed a federal lawsuit with similar allegations against Boyce. Kahler said in the suit that Boyce called her into his office and tried to kiss her. When she rejected him, the suit says he said, “You have a very nice ass. Let me feel this,” and groped her as he pulled away.

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Boyce has been charged with indecent assault and related offenses against Kahler, and that case is pending in Delaware County Court. He is also accused of assaulting another former employee, who allegedly lifted her skirt and asked her what sexual positions she preferred.

Andrew Edelberg, a lawyer representing Boyce in his criminal casessaid Friday that Bonsall’s allegations were “completely fabricated.”

“All the facts will come out in the trial,” he said. “This is another situation that is uncorroborated and unsubstantiated.”

According to Bonsall’s lawsuit, Boyce acted as if the two were in a relationship, often telling her that he loved and understood her better than her husband. Boyce gave her money and expensive gifts, despite her protests, and refused her attempts to return them, the lawsuit states.

In September 2019, Boyce invited Bonsall to a conference in New York that he told her other county staff would attend, but no one else showed up, according to the lawsuit. After Boyce drove them into town in his car, he forcibly kissed her, complained about his marriage and suggested they “get a room,” the lawsuit states. She refused his advances and asked him to take her home, according to the suit.

On the way back to Delaware County, Bonsall said, Boyce stopped at a bus stop and pushed her into the back seat of his vehicle, where he put his hands down her pants.

In later years, she said, other members of the emergency services department treated her poorly amid rumors that she and Boyce were having an affair.

She said she witnessed how Boyce would downplay sexual harassment complaints made by other female employees about their male colleagues. But she was “too intimidated by (Boyce’s) authority and her fear of losing her job” to speak out, according to the lawsuit.

On several occasions, Boyce exposed himself to Bonsall and masturbated while she was working on a computer in his office, according to the suit. At times, according to the lawsuit, he asked her to participate in intercourse.

In July 2023, Boyce walked into Bonsall’s office and handed her a coffee mug filled with champagne as she prepared to leave the office to attend a wedding, the suit states. “He repeatedly asked her to drink from her, calling her a ‘bad girl’ and asking if he needed to ‘punish her’ when she refused,” the lawsuit states.

She drank a little to calm him down, according to the suit, then woke up several hours later feeling disoriented, with gaps in her memory. Boyce had left the office by then, and she believed he had drugged her, the lawsuit said.

Even after Boyce was fired, Bonsall said, her mistreatment at work continued. Boyce’s successor and other county employees made it more difficult for him to fulfill his duties by changing access to certain computer systems and functions, according to the suit.