LAWSUIT: Round Lake Heights Police Chief John Roehlk sexually harASSed gay Police Officer Hossein Isbitan for some "hot man ass"

In the beginning, the rookie cop in far north suburban Round Lake Heights thought that all of the extra attention his older, male, police chief was lavishing upon him was perhaps because the chief was a “super friendly guy.”

But when the extra attention and praise quickly turned into sexually flirtatious texts, invitations to spend the night, unwanted touching, gifts and clandestine photos taken of him, Hossein “Sam” Isbitan, then 30, who is openly gay, said he knew that he had to find a polite way to make his boss, John Roehlk, who is in his 50s, know that he was not interested.

“If it was outside of work I would have ignored it and dealt with it,” Isbitan said. “I just wanted to go there, do my work and leave. I had no interest in him.”

When being polite stopped working and Isbitan had to make it clear he was not interested, he was eventually fired from his job, according to a lawsuit he filed this week in federal court, alleging sexual harassment, wrongful termination, retaliation, battery and emotional distress.

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