WEST NEWTON (MA)
Metro
October 15, 2018
By Kristin Toussaint
Two former students of the boarding school allege sexual abuse at the hands of Fessenden School employees in the 1960s and 1970s.
Two former students of the Fessenden School west of Boston have filed a lawsuit seeking compensation for the alleged sexual abuse they suffered by employees of the all-boys boarding school in the 1960s and 1970s.
The lawsuit was recently filed in Middlesex County Superior Court on behalf of two former Fessenden School students: John Sweeney, who now lives in Connecticut, and William A. Greaves II, who now lives in Norfolk.
The plaintiffs allege that Fessenden officials, including the headmaster, assistant headmaster, and director of residential life, were negligently hired, trained and supervised. These employees knew, or should have known, about the abuse, the lawsuit alleges, and were thus not fit to be around adolescent boys.
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