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MAY 18, 2017, BY DOUG STEWART AND CARMEN CHAU
NEW HAVEN — A jury awarded $20 million to a man who accused a New Haven rabbi of repeated sexual abuse.
In the federal suit, Eliyahu Mirlis accused Rabbi Daniel Greer, founder of an Orthodox Jewish school and prominent neighborhood resident, of sexual abuse him while Mirlis was a student at the school.
The jury awarded $15 million to the plaintiff. He was also was entitled to punitive damaged of one third of the verdict by state law.
The lawsuit said Rabbi Daniel Greer, the principal and rabbi for the all-boys Yeshiva of New Haven / The Gan School, sexually abused the plaintiff, Eliyahu Mirlis, now 28. Attorneys filed the lawsuit in federal court last year.
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