Sex Abuse Survivors Group to Hold Rally at Central Catholic High School Monday

By Lisa Redmond
Patch
April 29, 2017

https://patch.com/massachusetts/andover/sex-abuse-survivors-group-hold-rally-central-catholic-high-school-monday

Road to Recovery, an international group that supports sexual abuse survivors, plans to rally at Central Catholic High School on Monday after a school administrator was fired after being accused of drugging and raping a student in 2006, the Eagle-Tribune reports.

Dr. Robert Hoatson, the leader of Road to Recovery, a non-profit, sexual abuse recovery organization based in Livingston, New Jersey, told the Eagle-Tribune he received phone calls about the Central Catholic situation from sexual abuse survivors living in the Merrimack Valley.

Hoatson said a demonstration is planned at 11 a.m. on Monday at Central Catholic High School at 300 Hampshire St, in Lawrence.

Andrew Nikonchuk, 36, of Lowell, was fired Tuesday for violating "the school's policies pertaining to appropriate social boundaries between students and faculty."

The former Central Catholic director of curriculum and instruction was fired after a former student, a male who graduated in 2008, reported the incident to authorities on April 20.

The Middlesex district attorney is investigating the allegations.