Dareh Gregorian
March 23, 2006
A Manhattan woman says she was sexually harassed while working at a papel
charity - conduct she was told she should accept as a “challenge from God."
Alleged harasser and CNEWA spokesman Michael La Civita denied the
allegations and said he was "stunned" to hear of the suit.
Reinhard went to work for CNEWA, a Manhattan-based charity that does
humanitarian work in the Middle East, in 2002. She was an editor for
publications.
He also would refer to women as "pigs," and talked to his friends who "are into
threesomes," the suit says.
Reinhard said when she complained to human resources about La Civita, she
was told "not to use the word 'harassment,' " that he "was 'a man in pain' " and
to accept his conduct as a "challenge from God."
She complained to CNEWA's secretary general, Monsignor Robert Stern, who
said, "Why can't a woman be more like a man," the suit says. She said she was
fired after that.
