The correction officer accused of raping a woman while posing as a television producer coerced four women held on Rikers Island into a sexually-charged sick game of “Simon Says,” a new lawsuit alleges.
Anthony Martin Jr. ordered then-detainee Jessica Brenner and three other women in the Rose M. Singer Center into a locked room in June 2023 where he made Brenner pull down her pants and “twerk” while another detainee “humped” her and “smacked her ass,” Brenner’s lawsuit filed Sept. 13 in Manhattan federal court alleges.
Martin then tried to lean on Brenner to sign a document claiming nothing happened, the lawsuit alleges. Brenner told The News she decided to come forward after she learned of Martin’s rape arrest.
“I felt like if I had said more at the time, maybe that wouldn’t have happened,” she said. “A lot of times, women aren’t believed. This is a power trip for him. He doesn’t have to do it, but he chooses to do it.”
Martin was busted by police April 5 for the unrelated rape of a woman at his apartment , as the Daily News first reported, and then indicted by a grand jury in Queens on Aug 26 on first degree rape charges. The victim thought Martin was a TV producer and she was appearing for an audition .