EEOC sues Delco car dealer, service manager
Philadelphia Daily News, March, 2008 by WILLIAM BENDER benderw@phillynews.com 215-854-5255
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The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission yesterday filed a federal lawsuit against a Delaware County car dealership, claiming it ignored complaints about a foul-mouthed service manager who sexually harassed three female employees.
The civil-rights suit alleges that Murphy Ford Lincoln Mercury, in Chester, retaliated against Cynthia Bell, 43, the only black female employee in the dealer's service department, by firing her in December 2003, after she repeatedly complained about her supervisor's allegedly sexist and racially offensive remarks.
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According to the EEOC, Murphy Ford service manager Ronald DeMuro would ask Bell, who now lives in Georgia, why "black people eat grits," provide explicit details about his sexual encounter with a black woman and ask her to "come and sit on [his] face."
Bell contends that DeMuro also grabbed her and kissed her on the cheek but that the company's managers ...
