The Sex Scandal Cop Who Got Fired Along With Half Her Department is Suing, Claiming She Was 'Sexually Groomed'
You know, this is a funny business. Every time you think you've got it all figured out, it'll still find ways to surprise you.
When you've followed as many alarming, shocking, and lurid sex scandals as I have, you start to notice a pattern. They become like Rocky/Creed sequels after a while, where you sit there during the first act and write the whole rest of the movie in your head, right down to the second act moment of despair and the final punches that win the day at the end.
Take the case Maegan Hall of the LaVergne, TN Police Department. Married police officer has sex with several of her co-workers while on duty, goes around bragging about her fellow officers' penises, gets naked at a work party, and everyone gets fired:
It's revealed she told people she was in an "open marriage," which came as news to her husband. She gets offered a nice chunk of change to work the pole at a Nashville nudie bar's St. Paddy's Day event. The details of her interview with investigators get released, including the 3-way she had with another cop and his wife:
Eventually, the scandal costs even her supervisor his career:
So pretty much everything has unfolded according to the script. This is right out of the Sex Scandal formula. In fact, Officer Hall's story reads like it was written by ChatGPT.
Until now. Until this shocking, ironic twist that even M. Night Shyamalan couldn't have dreamt up during his creative peak:
Source - The Tennessee cop fired over her numerous sexual romps with other officers claims in a new federal lawsuit that superiors in her department “sexually groomed” her for the risqué escapades.
Maegan Hall, 26, who blamed a troubled marriage for her randy affairs, claims she felt trapped and exploited in the midst of the all-male ranks of the La Vergne Police Department, according to her 51-page federal complaint filed Monday.
“Where Ms. Hall sought role models at her new job, she instead found predators,” the lawsuit says. “In place of offering professional development, her supervisors and the chief of police groomed her for sexual exploitation.
“They colluded in using their authority to systematically disarm her resistance and entrap her in degrading and abusive sexual relationships, even sharing tips on the best ways to manipulate and exploit her.”
Advertisement
Wow. I did NOT see that coming. And I guess all you can do is congratulate Officer Hall's legal team for the bold strategy on this one. They've got to prove, by a preponderance of the evidence that their client, a grown adult who passed all the psychological tests one needs to in order to graduate from a police academy, get issued a gun, and be given the legal authority to take people into custody and charge them with crimes, was "sexually groomed" by her co-workers.
I mean, is there a more potent, emotionally charged word in common use in the English language than "groom" right now? Most often associated with accusations of pedophilia and child exploitation, it's use is getting people banned from certain social media platforms like Reddit. The term has gotten so toxic I get a little triggered when I see it on the front of the PetSmart next to my gym every morning.
But this is what Maegan's lawyers are going with. They're going to try to sell to a jury that open marriage, orgies, workplace BJs, public nudity and discussions about co-workers' dicks wasn't a lifestyle choice brought on by an adult woman's sex-positive outlook. It was forced on her. She had no choice. There was no not having sex in the precinct while on the clock, stripping down at another officer's house or in a hot tub at a party. Because she was groomed to do all these things. There was simply no other way to be a cop in LaVergne, TN.
I'm not here to give anyone legal advice, but I suppose this is worth a shot. Maegan's got nothing to lose. It's not like she's going to hook on with another police department, or even a private security firm. Her options are either sue and get paid, or start choreographing her moves to "Pour Some Sugar on Me" before St. Patrick's Day in two weeks. Either way, I hope it works out for her. A woman this bold deserves everything she goes after. And then some.