Giving her liberty could give her death, according to a highly allergic Brooklyn security guard who says she was vindictively transferred to the Statue of Liberty.
Winnifred Dwyer — who suffers from a number of ailments — says her bosses at FJC Security Services have threatened to fire her if she doesn’t show up for work at Lady Liberty.
She is asking a judge to stop the transfer and has filed a $10 million discrimination lawsuit in Brooklyn federal court.
Dwyer “has a documented history of disabilities” including a paralyzed trigger finger caused by an on-the-job injury, tumors near her vocal cords, and “an allergy to certain substances in the air which trigger her throat to close such that she requires hospitalization and intubation,” her suit says.
FJC has cut her hours from full- to part-time and has been transferring her “to the farthest locations from her home,” the suit says.
Now FJC wants to move her to the statue, “where there is no hospital, and no medical facility whatsoever.”
Her doctor declared the transfer “not medically feasible,” her legal filing says.
FJC did not return a message seeking comment.