Myself (28f) and another staff member (29f) work for a company that provides care to disabled individuals. Location: Illinois. We both have worked for the company for years when they hired an older man who was very inappropriate. Both of us worked regularly with him, both 1 on 1 and all 3 together. From day 1 this man was highly inappropriate with us, making jokes about his genitalia and repeated comments on our bodies, looks, and hair. He would stand away from us and stare at us for long periods of time. He told us he has a fetish for a certain style/type of hair, something both of us have. He also made inappropriate comments about my child and their hair, in reference to his fetish. We both repeatedly reported him to our supervisor who told us that no one would believe us and that I am “dramatic”. This supervisor promised to help get him transfered and told me to NOT report above their head because no one would believe me and they could handle it personally. This supervisor did speak with the male staff multiple times about unacceptable behavior but nothing changed. He began texting us outside of work, especially my coworker as she is single and I am married. He repeatedly asked her out and pursued her despite clear and repeated rebukes. We both treated this man with contempt, with the cold shoulder, and did our best to not engage with him at all unless we absolutely had to. Unfortunately due to the nature of our work we had no choice but to be alone with him regularly, during which he would continue to be innappropriate. Out of desperation I began secretly recording him when he was saying these things and I also recorded myself confronting him about his comment about my child. I did this with the intention of proving it to upper management, not to use it in a legal context, but i know Illinois is a 2 party state so its not super legal for me to have done this.
Myself and this other staff finally got in touch with HR (they are at a secondary location and during this period we did not have any staff in HR due to multiple people quitting at the same time) and both gave detailed statements. I also included information about our supervisors comments about not believing me. This resulted in both the male staff and the supervisor being terminated. We were hugely relieved, this took a lot of stress off both of our plates and made our workplace a much nicer place to be. We heard that he had repeatedly shown up at the main location demanding to speak with my coworker, trying to speak to the individuals we serve, called the main location over and over again demanding to know if my coworker was “okay” and wanting to know what was said about him.
There is a lot more to this that involves another staff member who was walked out during a shift because they came in behaving erratically and was verbally abusing myself and the individuals and was being physically threatening towards us. Since their termination, this staff threatened me, harassed me via text and phone calls, and has been witnessed at our local Walmart ranting about me (because i was the staff there with them when they began acting unhinged and was consequently walked out). This staff and the male staff became friends after being terminated and were seen lurking at a bar another one of our coworkers bartends at. All-in-all this has been wildly stressful, the only relief is that they dont know where I or my coworker live. This truly wouldnt be an issue, it all seemed to have died down over the past month until today when we found out that either our union or HR gave the male coworker copies of our statements. We know that he was given these copies AFTER he was terminated. We dont know if he was given just my coworker’s or mine as well, but we know now that he has resumed going to and calling our main location. We also have reason to believe these statements were not redacted in anyway, and even if they were there is no way he wouldnt be able to immediately identify who wrote them.
My main question is, is there anything we can do about this? I did not think that harassers could be given a copy of the victims’ statements. Especially because prior to being given the statements, we have reason to believe he did NOT know which staff had reported him. I think this opens the both of us up to further harassment and potentially puts us in danger.
Any advice or guidance would be very much appreciated!