NEW YORK
Daily Mail (UK)
By JAMES DUNN FOR MAILONLINE
A teacher who allegedly repeatedly abused a 15-year-old girl and forced her to get two abortions was allowed to continue working in education after a Catholic school failed to report him, an investigation claims.
Rodney Alejandro, a biology teacher at St Francis Preparatory School in Queens, allegedly began raping the girl in January 1988, according to the Special Commissioner of Investigations (SCI) report.
But he resigned quietly from the New York Catholic school, and went on to work for various others between 1998 and 2012 when he was eventually fired for an unrelated reason.
The girl reported the case to investigators in 2014 when the school was the subject of a $17million lawsuit alleging sexual and physical abuse against teachers at the school in 2013. Her case was dismissed.
The victim, who said wrote a blog about the abuse she suffered, said it made her ‘suicidal’, but she was told too much time had passed since it happened and she could not launch a lawsuit.
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