CALIFORNIA IN BRIEF : SAN DIEGO : Navy Worker Files Sex Harassment Suit

The Navy’s problems with sexual harassment continued when a woman announced that she has sued three male co-workers at the Miramar Naval Air Station for, she says, subjecting her to unwanted sexual advances for almost two years. Connie J. Kent, 35, said the harassment by the three--each a civilian employee as she is--drove her to seek psychological care. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in San Diego, named James Holbrook, Ed Segismar and Tom Humphrey as defendants. Navy Secretary H. Lawrence Garrett III also was named as a defendant because the lawsuit was also filed against the Navy. The lawsuit, filed Feb. 25, alleged that the three men engaged in unrelenting harassment from October, 1990, to July, 1991, when they worked with her at the station’s post exchange. The incidents of harassment described in the lawsuit ranged from propositions and grabbing by Holbrook and Humphrey to Segismar’s “descriptions of and gesticulations showing the size of his private parts.” Humphrey and Segismar could not be reached for comment, and Holbrook did not return messages left at his residence.