David Drummond, the chief legal officer of Google parent company Alphabet, fathered a child with a colleague during an extramarital affair while he was GC of Google, according to a Thursday report from The New York Times.

Drummond, who joined Google as general counsel in 2002, reportedly began dating legal department colleague Jennifer Blakely in 2004. She was then a senior contract manager on Google's legal team.

In 2007, Blakely and Drummond had a son together at which point the then-GC disclosed their relationship to Google. Blakely told The New York Times that Google's head of human resources, Stacy Sullivan, who is now chief culture officer, told her that the company did not encourage manager-subordinate relationships. Blakely believed that either she or Drummond would have to leave the legal team and that it was “clear it would not be David.”

She was transferred to the sales team shortly after. A year later she left Google entirely, at which point the company asked her to sign paperwork stating she had left voluntarily, according to the Times report.

In 2008, Drummond left Blakely. She won the ensuing custody battle for their son.

Since then, Drummond has been promoted to CLO of Alphabet and chairman of Google's investment arms, Google Ventures and CapitalG, earning millions of dollars in the process. Blakely told the New York Times that the lack of consequences for Drummond reflected the tech company's tendency to look away from the misconduct of high-ranking men.

“[Google's response] amplifies the message that for a select few, there are no consequences,” Blakely told the New York Times, adding, “Google felt like I was the liability.”

A number of other former and current high-ranking Google executives were named in Thursday's New York Times report, which cited misconduct allegations against Android creator Andy Rubin, Google X director Richard DeVaul and former head of search and senior vice president Amit Singhal.