Krystal Rice Topless Photos: Cop Sues Sheriff's Department After Being Asked To Pose Semi Naked

Deputy Krystal Rice is suing the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office over topless photos of her allegedly taken by a detective.

A New York sheriff's deputy says in a $50 million lawsuit that an officer asked her to pose naked as part of an undercover operation and now the department can't find the photos.

Krystal Rice alleges that she posed for the suggestive pictures to aid an operation against online pedophiles. In the civil lawsuit, filed Monday, she contends that Jefferson County Sheriff's officials promised her in 2006 that access to the images would be tightly restricted, station WWNY said.

The decision was one she came to regret. The department broke the terms of the deal, the suit states, forcing Rice to endure "intentional infliction of emotional distress," the Watertown Daily Times reported . She also claims that the cop who took pictures of her eventually started harassing her and gossiping that she had sex with multiple people in the department.

By her understanding of the agreement, Rice was entitled to ask for the photos back at any time. However, in February 2009, when Rice requested the floppy disk with the images -- the only existing copy of the photos -- the department told her it couldn't be located.

She now worries about how many people have seen the pics, North County Public Radio said.

Rice also claims a contract outlining how the half-naked pictures of her could be used is missing from her personnel file.

Officials from the sheriff's department won't talk about the allegations or say if anyone's been disciplined.

"We will not be commenting because it's a matter of ongoing litigation," said Undersheriff Andrew Neff to The Huffington Post. "That's all I'm going to tell you."

According to Rice, Detective Steven Cote asked her to participate in the pedophile investigation by pretending to be a 15-year-old girl when she was still in training.

Rice says she was uncomfortable posing in a state of undress, but Cote allegedly persuaded her by showing photos of what he said was another female officer in cutoff jeans and a tight top, according to media reports.

At her photo shoot, however, Rice was supposedly asked to lift her skirt, revealing her thigh and underwear. She also claims she was asked to pose topless, though covering her chest with her hands, said WWNY.

Lt. Michael Peterson -- a supervisor who supposedly authorized the shoot -- tried to assuage her by in March 2009 by saying that the disc had been destroyed, the suit alleges. Later, Peterson told her the photos shouldn't have been taken, according to North Country Public Radio.

Rice also claims in the suit that Cote harassed her, sending unwanted text messages and spreading rumors that she was promiscuous.

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Comments

[Ganji]

12:46 AM on 04/29/2012

LOL that good for her

[Sean Pidgeon]

02:15 PM on 04/21/2012

All this victim blaming nonsense makes me sick. Ya know who's to blame for sexual harassment? Sexual harassers and that's it! The victim is never ever at fault, for any reason. The responsibility lies solely with those misogynists who think they have the right to sexually harass women and make them feel uncomfortable.

[Ganji]

12:48 AM on 04/29/2012

You know what, i would normally agree BUT the fact that when men are the victims, women joke etc(take a look at the story of the man who died after his testicle were squeezed) so because of incidents like that i have no empathy for women when they are the victims

[lklex]

10:58 AM on 04/21/2012

So, Krystal Rice is looking for millions from the legal system for her horrible ordeal. Oddly, in stark contrast, not one male American in the history of the Republic has recovered a single cent for the loss of freedom or life or limb due to male-only military conscription or for having, still in 2012, to endure the humiliation of registering his body under the federal Selective Service Act for a possible military draft. My heart bleeds for poor Krystal Rice. If I were on a jury hearing her case, I would make sure she's amply compensated: 1 cent should suffice.

[iBlog4Food]

07:45 PM on 04/20/2012

have they checked the Commodore 64 unit in the basement?

[Riverman]

03:07 PM on 04/20/2012

When are we going to stop giving cops a pass? They don't respect our constitutional form of government and they don't respect us as individual citizens. They break laws including serious things such as faking evidence and committing perjury as a matter of routine. They are our employees and it's about time we insisted that they conduct our business by the rules of our society.

[MarlonBrando]

11:33 AM on 04/20/2012

Lady, topless pics of you are not worth $50 mil....

[ttsgw]

01:19 AM on 04/20/2012

It's interesting that so many believe that the human body, as created by god, is so terrible to show. If I were god I would really be pissed of.

[janeyre]

04:25 PM on 04/19/2012

Are women that dumb? I mean... Forget it...

[hannahalexaa]

08:32 PM on 04/19/2012

you are something else.

[Gregor53]

09:36 AM on 04/21/2012

Attempting to prove your point. You can now rest your case and give it to the jury.

[Moonshi14]

03:54 PM on 04/19/2012

I was going to say "why would she do that?" but it was to catch pedophiles. Sucks to have them go missing so hopefully they weren't nude shots. But 50 million? Lindsay Lohan only got 1 for her pics.

[WillistonElkoAlum2002]

02:39 PM on 04/19/2012

I hope she gets back the full amount, plus $999,950,000,000.00 dollars in punitive damages for the photos that were leaked!

[treemeizer]

12:38 PM on 04/19/2012

Disgusting...that floppy's are still being used.

[Hatchetman1994]

02:17 PM on 04/19/2012

Agreed :P

[WillistonElkoAlum2002]

02:36 PM on 04/19/2012

My Dell has a floppy disk. It is woefully insufficient for storage nowadays. I lost all of the Mega Man games I played on the NESter before the Anniversary Collection was released.

[justbcom]

12:29 PM on 04/19/2012

The only question I have is, where is her copy of the supposed contract that is now missing from her file? Common sense says always, always get a copy of the contracts you sign; on and off a job. Her case could have been easily made with it.

[hopper250]

11:15 AM on 04/19/2012

Its really sad how many people blame this officer for trying to catch some of the worst people in the world.

[Moonshi14]

03:56 PM on 04/19/2012

that's what i think. This isn't the first time female officers were used for this sort of thing. And who knows who's child she saved from getting abused.

[bsearchin4life]

11:09 AM on 04/19/2012

first of all $50 million who does she think she is celebrities dont even get paid that to pose for playboy and secondly if her picture was going to be on the internet to try and get online predators then the whole world would have access to the pictures thirdly if she had respect and morals for her life then she wouldnt have done it in the first place. all this is is a woman trying to come up for nothing... you dont get paid for making mistakes that you later regret!!!

[Gregor53]

09:38 AM on 04/21/2012

It is a suit, not a posing price.

[Kerpwnd]

11:03 AM on 04/19/2012

Wait, they put the pictures on a floppy disk? Seriously?

[Pete Geller]

04:18 PM on 04/19/2012

Must have been low resolution pictures.....