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Matt Austin
A federal jury has awarded $20 million to a man who accused a prominent Connecticut rabbi of repeatedly raping and molesting him when he was a teenager.
“The jury wacked him and the school for a $20-million verdict. Justice was done,” Antonio Ponvert III, attorney for Eliyahu Mirlis, said.
Rabbi Daniel Greer and his Yeshiva of New Haven were ordered Thursday to pay Mirlis $15 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages.
Mirlis alleged in a lawsuit that Greer, the school’s principal, sexually abused him for three years while he was a student at the Jewish boarding school from 2001 to 2005.
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