Steven Hirsch
A New Jersey woman is suing the son of a federal judge, accusing him of secretly recording their steamy sex sessions.
The mother of two claimed she had no clue she was being filmed during her decade-long, on-again, off-again relationship with Daniel McAvoy until months after she broke it off, when the Manhattan District Attorney’s office called her in and showed her one of the clips, according to the lawsuit.
“Over the course of many years, Daniel McAvoy engaged in a premeditated plot to secretly record hundreds of sexual encounters with women her had lured to his home. He meticulously stored and catalogued unlawful sex videos depicting his victims, and occasionally shared these unlawful sex videos with others,” the woman, identified only as Jane Doe, said in the lawsuit.
McAvoy, 51, is the son of Thomas McAvoy, a senior judge in upstate Binghamton appointed 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 a home in Broome County owned by the judge, including ones with hand-written labels “that included dozens of different first names and specific sex acts in explicit pornographic terms,” Doe said in her legal filing.
Doe claims that he demanded she send him “intimate” images and videos of herself “as a test of obedience and loyalty,” but never allowed her to photograph him, the alleged victim said in court papers.
They dated from 2011 to 2021. Jane Doe, is cooperating with the DA’s ongoing criminal case against McAvoy, she said in the Manhattan Supreme Court papers.
The accused pervert refused to go out in public with Jane Doe, she said, and even once claimed he was a kidney donor for his dad and “needed to be ‘on call’ in case his father had a medical emergency,” she said in court papers.
“Learning that a man she had trusted for so many years was secretly videotaping her most intimate and vulnerable moments has turned Jane Doe’s life completely upside down,” she said in the legal filing, adding she’s suing McAvoy “so that she can achieve a measure of personal justice.”
Lawyers for Doe, who is seeking unspecified damages, declined comment.