A Hartford jury awarded a Bloomfield medical assistant $2 million this week for invasion of privacy after her ex-boyfriend, a surgeon, secretly installed multiple bedroom and bathroom cameras, computer trackers and other bugs in the house they once shared. The technology enabled him to watch her on a four-part screen from three-quarters of a mile away.
Dr. William Martinez, a heart surgeon at St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center who lives in Avon, began a “consensual intimate personal relationship” with his employee, D’Anna M. Welsh, starting in 2001, as his own marriage was ending. He formally separated from his wife in 2005, and continued the relationship with Welsh until they broke up in 2007.
