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Ex-NYPD Sex Crimes Boss Retiring After Going on Pub Crawl With Rape Victim

 Lt. Adam Lamboy, former Manhattan Special Victims commander, has filed for retirement after pleading guilty to going on a drunken pub crawl in Seattle with a rape victim and one of his SVU detectives.
Lt. Adam Lamboy, former Manhattan Special Victims commander, has filed for retirement after pleading guilty to going on a drunken pub crawl in Seattle with a rape victim and one of his SVU detectives.
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MANHATTAN — An embattled NYPD sex crimes unit lieutenant, who pleaded guilty to going on a drunken pub crawl with a rape victim before one of his detectives groped her, has filed for retirement from the force, DNAinfo New York has learned.

Lt. Adam Lamboy, who was stripped of his post as Manhattan Special Victims commander, traveled to Seattle with Detective Lucasz Skorzewski in 2013 to interview a 24-year-old victim who was raped in a Union Square apartment.

But the two NYPD investigators coaxed her into going out with them for drinks and then took her on a nine-hour bar crawl where Skorzewski got so blitzed that a bartender allegedly refused to serve him more alcohol, sources said.

At the end of their evening, the woman said she was going home, but the officers suggested she call in sick to the Starbucks where she worked and “crash” in their hotel, according to sources and reports.

“You’ll be safe,” the woman quoted the officers in an interview with the Daily News.

She said Skorzewski slept on the couch while she took his bed. But in the morning, he allegedly climbed into the bed next to her and began running his hands across her body until she stopped him.

“Looking back, it was totally naive of me to join them,” the 24-year-old college student told the newspaper.  “But . . . I really looked up to them."

Last March, Lamboy, 44, pleaded guilty to “prohibited conduct,” which included the inappropriate behavior of taking a rape victim out for drinks, and for not properly supervising his detective. In a separate case, he also agreed to repay more than $5,000 for overtime that he not work.

He was docked 45 vacation days, and suspended for 15 more days without pay for the Seattle incident.  By filing for retirement, he “wants to put this behind him, and move on,” said one of his union representatives.

But Police Commissioner Bill Bratton has the final say on Lamboy’s retirement and whether he can leave the department with his full pension.

Since pleading guilty, he has been working in Flushing monitoring surveillance cameras in a city housing project.

Skorzewski, meanwhile, pleaded guilty to department charges, was docked 30 vacation days and suspended for 10 more. The 31-year-old officer was transferred to the NYPD Medical Division in Queens on a year’s probation.