A New Jersey woman has filed a lawsuit against the son of a federal judge, alleging that he secretly recorded the pair having a steamy sex act.
According to the lawsuit, the mother of two claims she had no idea she was being filmed during her decade-long on-and-off relationship with Daniel McAvoy until she was summoned to the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office and shown one of the tapes several months after the relationship ended.
“Daniel McAvoy spent years hatching a systematic conspiracy to secretly record hundreds of sexual acts with women he lured into his home. He meticulously kept and cataloged the illicit sex videos of his victims, and occasionally shared these illicit sex videos with others,” the woman, who identified herself only as Jane Doe, said in the lawsuit.
McAvoy, 51, is the son of the late Thomas McAvoy, a senior judge in north Binghamton who was appointed to the court in 1986 by President Ronald Reagan.
Daniel McAvoy was arrested in September 2022 on 29 counts of unlawful surveillance, a felony.
Investigators allegedly seized three hard drives and more than 150 DVDs from the judge’s Broome County home that were hand-labeled with “dozens of different names and specific sexual acts written in explicit pornographic terminology,” Doe said in the lawsuit.
The alleged victim claims in court documents that Doe demanded that she send him “intimate” images and videos of herself “as a test of his obedience and loyalty,” but never allowed her to take photographs.
The relationship lasted from 2011 to 2021. Jane Doe is cooperating with the district attorney’s ongoing criminal case against McAvoy, she said in Manhattan Supreme Court documents.
The accused pervert refused to appear in public with Jane Doe and even claimed he was her father’s kidney donor and needed to “be ‘on standby’ in case her father had a medical emergency,” she said in court documents.
“Jane Doe’s life has been completely turned upside down after she discovered that the man she trusted for so many years had secretly videotaped her most intimate and vulnerable moments,” she said in the lawsuit, adding that suing McAvoy would “allow her to achieve a degree of personal justice.”
An attorney for Doe, who is seeking unspecified damages, declined to comment.
