According to a
redacted police report which we are publishing through a
link at the end of this report, Joseph Vito — of the 21800
block of High Pine Trail in Boca Raton — ordered a
Haitian-speaking employee to massage him, and attempted to
have intimate physical contact with the woman, in an
unoccupied condominium in the Boca Lakes complex.
Vito, according to
accusations made in the report, attempted multiple times and
was videotaped naked.
“She told me sometime during the second week of May 2023,
when she got her immigration work permit, she went to the
office to show it to him. She said he started touching her
breast and she said no. She said he refused to take the work
permit from her.
She said she was
getting paid in cash, and he would just throw the envelope
at her. She said he told her as she was refusing his
proposals, he was reducing her hours from eight to five,
which he did.
(The victim) stated
that kept the same behavior going: getting naked, trying to
have sex with her. She said it happened so many times that
she could not give me an estimation. She said during her
last week (the suspect) took off his pants and told her to
clean his p–is.
She said as she was
about to pull her phone out to take his picture, he
threatened her by making “throat-cutting” gestures. She said
she realized that her life was more important than the money
she was making there, so she stopped going to that job.”
Also from the report: Vito allegedly told the victim that he
would fire her if she did not comply. The victim told Vito
to get a massage from his wife and not from her. He also
allegedly offered her $25 for an intimate physical
encounter.
Vito, 67, was arrested
on Thursday and booked into the Palm Beach County Jail at
2:17 p.m. He was released on his own recognizance several
hours later. |