TORONTO - A former Barrie, Ont., police officer has lost her discrimination case against the Barrie Police Services Board at the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario.

Tribunal vice-chair Sherry Liang has ruled Christina Farrell waited too long to file her complaint.

Farrell alleged she experienced job discrimination on the grounds of sex, sexual solicitation, family status and reprisal in her complaint filed last year.

Farrell, who worked for the Barrie force between 1999 and June 2008 when she resigned, was seeking $225,000 in compensation.

Among the allegations in her complaint, she claimed she was sexually touched by an officer as a cadet in 1999 and suffered a miscarriage in 2001 when she was beaten by a drunken female prisoner that her supervisor ordered her to deal with alone in a cell.

She also alleged in her complaint that her father -- an inspector on the force -- misused his power to have charges laid against her husband, who is a Barrie police officer, and that her husband continues to be harassed.

Farrell also alleges that a negative reference from a Barrie staff sergeant led to her not getting a job with the Orangeville Police Service in October 2009.

Barrie police had asked for Farrell's application to be dismissed on the grounds that most of the alleged events happened before she resigned and her allegations were made after the one-year time limit for making a complaint had expired.

In her ruling, Liang wrote Farrell didn't prove her case that Barrie police prevented her from being hired by Orangeville police. Two of the three references from the Barrie Police Service were favourable to her, noted Liang.

"Which is inconsistent with her theory that the Barrie Police Service, as an organization, sought to thwart her job application with the Orangeville Police for discriminatory reasons," wrote Liang.

It is hard to link allegations that Farrell was molested by a fellow officer in 1999, compelled to do dangerous work in 2000 and 2001 to events concerning her husband, Liang added.

In a statement issued Wednesday, Barrie's police chief said an investigation by the Halton Regional Police into various allegations by Farrell has concluded.

"The independent investigation partially substantiated an incident that took place in our cell block in 2001," said Neelin.

"In the decade since, and prior to receiving the allegation, procedures were developed and implemented by the Service regarding accommodation of members," he said. "No similar incident has occurred in the years since."

The independent investigation did not substantiate the remaining allegations in the complaint, said Neelin.