MASSACHUSETTS
Milford Daily News
By Brad Avery
Posted Aug. 3, 2016
BOSTON – A former student at a private Catholic school in Framingham is suing the school and the Boston Archdiocese for failing to stop a female gym teacher from sexually abusing her while the two lived together in the mid-1970s.
The student, referred to as “Jane Doe” in a complaint filed in Suffolk County Superior Court, accuses Diane Ryszewski, a former gym teacher at Marian High School in Framingham, of sexually abusing her while she lived at the teacher’s home in Hopkinton, starting at age 14, according to Doe’s lawyer, Carmen Durso, who held a press conference Wednesday in his Boston office.
At the age of 14, in 1975, Doe said she moved in with Ryszewski in Hopkinton because of some troubles with Doe’s family. At the time, Ryszewski taught physical education and sexual education at Marian. She also coached several school sports teams; Doe played on some of the teams.
Doe is now 55 and no longer lives in Massachusetts. In 2015, she came to terms with the victimization she suffered as a teenager and sought out Durso last year to seek compensation, she said in a press conference at Durso’s Boston law office. The woman agreed to speak to the press as long as she is not identified.
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