Christian Lanng vehemently denied the allegations
The co-founder of a San Francisco expertise firm, Christian Lanng, is going through accusations of compelling his former assistant to signal an inappropriate “slave contract,” exposing her to years of distressing and undesirable sexual horror.
The lawsuit, filed on Thursday, claims that Lanng imposed the contract on his government assistant shortly after hiring her at Tradeshift.
The person, known as Jane Doe in court docket paperwork, alleges that Lanng subjected her to years of rape and abuse. The software program firm can also be implicated within the lawsuit.
Lanng’s torment reportedly included “inflicting bodily ache by varied means, urinating on her, and recurrently utilizing overseas objects to penetrate her,” as detailed within the lawsuit initially reported by the Mercury Information.
These disturbing accusations emerged after the chief was dismissed as CEO earlier this 12 months on account of “gross misconduct on a number of grounds.” Administration grew to become conscious of “critical allegations of sexual assault and harassment” in opposition to him, prompting his termination.
The individual making the accusations additional asserted that she was terminated in 2020 after elevating considerations with human sources concerning the nine-page “slave contract,” which she maintained she was compelled to signal, the New York Submit reported.
In response to an alleged copy of the contract submitted with the lawsuit, Doe had purportedly agreed to “at all times be sexually out there for her grasp when he wants intercourse and by no means to refuse him intercourse even when not sporting the [day] collar.”
“Every time she sees her grasp in personal for the primary time, she is to kneel and ask if there’s something she will be able to do for him,” the purported contract added.
The doc additionally stated that Lanng was allowed “any punishment the grasp decides to inflict, whether or not earned or not” – though it did observe that it was the “grasp’s duty” to keep away from killing the lady or inflicting everlasting damage.
The contract acknowledged that the slave should at all times take her punishments “with out being offended, sullen or annoyed together with her grasp” and she or he should “thank him after.”
As per the lawsuit, the previous assistant was additionally obligated to take care of a “diary” documenting her “subjugation and enslavement” by the accused. Moreover, she had reportedly consented to being bodily punished “with a cane” if she failed to put in writing submissive entries.
Lanng is alleged to have subjected the lady to extreme beatings, inflicting her to bleed, and engaged in acts of violation with inanimate objects, in line with the accuser.
The authorized submitting claims that the accuser was contractually sure to decorate in a “correct, female approach” and keep a weight between 130 and 155 kilos. Furthermore, she supposedly agreed to supply Lanng with weekly spreadsheets detailing her progress.
“The slave agrees to submit utterly to the grasp in all methods. There are not any boundaries of place, time, or scenario wherein the slave could willfully refuse to obey the grasp’s directive with out risking punishment,” the contract learn, in line with the lawsuit.
“The slave additionally agrees that when entered into the Slavery Contract, their physique belongs to their grasp for use as seen match inside the tips outlined herein. All the slave’s possessions likewise belong to the grasp, together with all property, funds, on-line accounts and materials items, to do with as they see match.”
The previous assistant stated she signed the contract as a result of she “beloved her job, was carrying out vital work in her new position and didn’t wish to lose the chance to work a Tradeshift.”
A consultant from the Tradeshift, which was additionally named within the lawsuit, informed The New York Submit that it “denies the allegations within the declare insofar as they’re made in opposition to the corporate,” however declined to remark additional whereas referring again to the assertion it launched in October saying Lanng’s dismissal.
Lanng vehemently denied the allegations in a press release to The Submit, saying that the pair had a “consensual” sexual relationship.