From the Roanoke Times: Their offense was the same: a sexual encounter in the workplace, which happened to be a city fire station. He was fired from his job as a captain for the Roanoke Fire-EMS Department. She kept her job as a paramedic for the department.

Dennis Croft — who admits he had a sexual relationship with Deborah Van Ness while off duty, but denies her allegations that they carried it out the night of April 15, 2010, in the bunkhouse of Fire Station No. 4 — was fired by the city last year.

In a lawsuit filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Roanoke, Croft is claiming that the city engaged in disparate discipline when it gave Van Ness a simple admonishment for the same behavior that cost him his job.

By firing Croft "while simultaneously refusing to discipline Van Ness, who alleges that she actually did commit the actions resulting in Croft's termination, Defendant City of Roanoke has discriminated against [Croft] on the basis of his gender," the lawsuit states. Read the entire article here.