She claims no one helped Sues department for $15M

A STATEN Island woman trying to break free from her abusive husband — an NYPD captain — received no help from the department or a judge handling her divorce, according to bombshell legal papers filed this week.

In January 2017, after three years of being abused by her often-drunk husband, Cathleen Kenny asked Staten Island Matrimonial Court Judge Catherine DiDomenico for an order of protection against Capt. Christopher Monahan while the divorce proceeding continued.

DiDomenico denied the request, claiming that she “didn’t want to create a hardship for his position with the police department,” according to court papers filed with the city controller this week.

Instead, the judge turned to Monahan, ordering, “No drinking inside the marital home,” the lawsuit states.

That order was obeyed about two weeks, Kenny said.

About a month later, Kenny was arrested on an allegedly trumped-up assault charge filed by Monahan, the vice president of the NYPD’s Captains Endowment Association, the union that represents the department’s higher ranks.

“Usually when this happens, it’s the reverse. The wife accuses the husband of assault,” said Kenny, who is suing the city, the NYPD and the union in her notice of claim. “I gave the NYPD every opportunity to correct this injustice, but they continually swept it under the blue carpet.”

Her attorney, Eric Sanders, was appalled by DiDomenico’s ruling.

“I thought you go to the courts to get justice,” said Kenny’s attorney Eric Sanders. “How is that justice when (Kenny) has a legitimate safety concern and a judge is for worried about how that’s going to hurt Monahan’s career?”

As vice president of the union, Monahan, 48, was no longer on the street and didn’t need a firearm, Sanders said.

“All he’s doing is going to the union hall,” he said. “The only thing this judge enforced was a drinking glass.”

Judge DiDomenico refused to comment on the divorce when approached outside her home Friday. The state Office of Court Administration declined to comment on pending litigation.

Kenny, 49, also declined to talk about the judge’s decision, since her divorce is still pending.

Since 2014, she and two her teenage children have been subjected to violent drunken outbursts, verbal assaults and domestic violence, according to the suit.

And the department did nothing to stop it, Kenny said.

“The NYPD is like a blue mob,” she said Friday. “They know that domestic violence is an issue in