'Nobody Would Help Me' -- Former Employee Sues The Unified Government Of Kansas City, Kansas

Just over a week after her old boss was convicted of battery against her, Maddie Waldeck is suing the Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas, where they both worked.

Waldeck, who no longer works for the UG, told KCUR the two years she worked with Dennis "Tib" Laughlin were the "most stressful and heartbreaking of her professional life."

The lawsuit says Laughlin, who was a high-ranking official of the UG, engaged in "a pattern and practice of gender discrimination, harassment and retaliation."

Laughlin did not immediately respond to KCUR's request for comment.

Waldeck started documenting every encounter that made her uncomfortable after the State of the Government address in 2016, when Laughlin approached her table, she said, and asked if she'd heard the rumor they were sleeping together.

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