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A new lawsuit filed in the Los Angeles County Superior Court on behalf of a current Activision Blizzard employee has raised fresh allegations of sexual harassment and gender discrimination at the publisher, also accusing it of retaliation after the employee publicly spoke out about her experiences at the company in December.

According to the lawsuit, as reported by Bloomberg Law, the employee - referred to only as Jane Doe - started work as a senior administrative assistant to executives in Activision Blizzard's IT department in 2017. It's claimed Doe was often pressured to drink alcohol at the company, was subjected to sexual comments about her appearance and clothing, was subjected unwelcome physical touching and attempts to kiss her, and that women were routinely made to participate in "cube crawls" where they experienced sexual comments and groping.

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Activision Blizzard Suit Claims Sexual Harassment Led to Employee Suicide

Activision Blizzard has been sued by the family of the woman who ended her own life and was referenced in the California DFEH lawsuit last July.

Activision Blizzard Sued By Family Of Employee Who Died By Suicide

This story involves reports of sexual harassment, abuse, and suicide.

Following Activision Blizzard coming under fire over claims of equal pay violations, sex discrimination, and sexual harassment, the company is now being sued by the family of one of its former employees who died by suicide in 2017.

According to The Washington Post, the family of Kerri Moynihan--a former finance manager at Activision Blizzard--is now suing the company for her wrongful death. Moynihan was found dead during a company retreat back in 2017. The family says the sexual harassment Moynihan experienced while working at Activision Blizzard was a "significant factor" in her death by suicide, which occurred shortly after her male co-workers circulated nude images of her. In the official 2021 California Department of Fair Employment and Housing lawsuit which first made mention of the incident, one of Moynihan's supervisors was also accused of contributing to this sexual harassment by bringing sex toys with him on a business trip Moynihan accompanied him on.

In addition to these claims, Moynihan's parents have also accused their daughter's boss, Greg Restituito, of lying to investigators from the Anaheim Police Department about the nature of his relationship with Moynihan. According to Moynihan's parents, Restituito and their daughter had a sexual relationship that he "made an apparent effort to hide" following her death. A police report included in the lawsuit also stated that Restituito made “seemingly unusual inquiries with other employees who were present with [Kerri] the night preceding her death.” Moynihan's parents also stated that following their daughter's death, Activision Blizzard reported Moynihan's cellphone as "wiped," refused to give investigators her company-issued laptop, and withheld access to Restituito’s laptop and cellphone.

Shortly after the reports of Activision Blizzard's alleged role in Moynihan's death surfaced last year, the company called the claims “distorted, and in many cases false.” Activision Blizzard then criticized the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing for including mention of the suicide, writing “We are sickened by the reprehensible conduct of the DFEH to drag into the complaint the tragic suicide of an employee whose passing has no bearing whatsoever on this case and with no regard for her grieving family."

Per The Washington Post's report, Activision Blizzard has declined to respond directly to the allegations made in the Moynihan's lawsuit. Instead, a spokesperson has stated the company is “deeply saddened by the tragic death of Ms. Moynihan, who was a valued member of the company. We will address the complaint through the legal process as appropriate, and out of respect for the family we have no further comment at this time.”

Activision Blizzard being sued by family of employee who died by suicide

Activision Blizzard is being sued for wrongful death by the family of an employee that died by suicide after allegedly being sexually harassed.

As reported by the Wall Street Journal, the family of 32-year-old Activision Blizzard finance manager Kerri Moynihan, who was found dead during a company retreat in 2017, are claiming sexual harassment was a "significant factor" in her suicide.

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Classifying Sexual Harassment using Machine Learning

This article was published as a part of the Data Science Blogathon. Following the #MeToo movement we had a lot of people opening up about their sexual harassment incidents, but as with any internet viral movement, it faded with time. However, this plethora of information can be used effectively to automatically classify abuse incidents into […]

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