BRIDGEPORT — A Shelton spa at the center of more than a half-dozen sexual assault complaints agreed Thursday to pay a settlement to an alleged Stratford assault victim.
Cocco Spa of Shelton, which is on Bridgeport Avenue, agreed to pay a settlement as the civil case was being prepared for trial in Superior Court in Bridgeport.
The terms of the settlement were kept confidential by agreement of the parties.
Arthur Laske III, who represents the Stratford woman, declined comment. A woman who identified herself as the spa’s manager but refused to give her name had no comment on the settlement.
Hyung Kim, 56, who worked at the spa as a masseuse, is being sought by police after being charged with eight counts of fourth-degree sexual assault and eight counts of working as an unlicensed masseuse in 2016.
Police said the Stratford woman was one of eight who claimed they were sexually assaulted by Kim at the spa. Police said Kim fled the area after being released on $40,000 bond while he was awaiting trial in Superior Court in Derby.
In the lawsuit filed in Superior Court in Bridgeport against Kim and the spa, the 36-year-old Stratford woman, whose name is being withheld by Hearst Connecticut Media, states that Kim, a Korean citizen, sexually assaulted her on May 27, 2016, while she was at the Coco Spa.
“Our claim is that this company hired an individual who was unlicensed and didn’t supervise him and the result is that he used this business as a tool to assault woman,” Laske told Hearst Connecticut Media when the lawsuit was filed.
The lawsuit states that the woman went to the spa and was directed to a room for a...
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