The New Jersey dominatrix-turned-cop was offered a deal that would let her keep her job if she passed a psychiatric exam showing she didn’t like beating the pulp out of perps, sources told The Post.
The offer from the Hudson County Sheriff’s office to stunning “beat cop” Kristen Hyman came in advance of a court showdown slated for last Thursday that was postponed, according to two sources familiar with the negotiations.
The department’s “worst nightmare is if she’s out there and she’s really a dominatrix type and she beats the sh-t out of somebody,” the first source said. “The county [would be] liable.” Hyman nixed the idea of taking a psych test, and also refused to sign a waiver saying she wouldn’t sue the department, the source said.
A county insider confirmed the offer and the department’s fear she might be inclined toward using excessive force.
Hyman’s newly hired lawyer, Douglas Anton, would not confirm or deny the existence of such an offer.
“There have been discussions between the parties about an amicable resolution…If that (the psych exam) was an offer, I would have to discuss it with my client, as I would any offer. We are looking to have her start working,” Anton said.
The lawyer noted Hyman has been inducted into the PBA union and has the support of her fellow officers.
Hyman, 30, a rookie sheriff’s officer, was suspended without pay last month when her bosses learned of the dozens of bawdy beatdown videos she made between 2008 and 2012.
The department charged she was an embarrassment to the force, lied on job applications about her previous career and failed to disclose she “sometimes saw clients privately for money.”
But Hyman insisted in an exclusive interview with The Post last week that she was a struggling actress when she starred as latex-clad Domina Nyx Blake in kinky bondage films, and that her S&M persona was “scripted.” She claimed she never performed sex acts in the buff.
“There was no prostitution. There was nothing that can be considered escorting or anything like that,” Hyman told The Post.
The Bayonne native, who is also a certified EMT, had put her whips and chains away, and wondered what her secret alter ego “has to do with me doing the job.”
She said working in law enforcement was her “dream” since childhood.
The settlement talks involving a psych evaluation came in the days leading up to the scheduled June 22 administrative hearing.
Hyman changed lawyers last Monday, but the offer “may still be on the table,” speculated the first source.
But by initially rejecting a deal that could have saved her “dream” job, and refusing to waive possible litigation, she opens herself up to criticism that this is a money grab, the source said. “She said she just wants to be a sheriff’s officer,” the source believes.
Hudson County Sheriff’s spokesman J.P. Escobar told The Post he couldn’t comment on an“active case.” No new court date has been set.