SALISBURY (CT)
Connecticut Law Tribune

October 15, 2018

By Robert Storace

The prominent Hotchkiss School has been hit with another sex assault suit. This one is the second against former English teacher Roy G. Smith Jr. The school was the subject of a report released by a prominent law firm that claimed there was a pattern of sex abuse at the school going back decades.

On the heels of a report detailing decades of sexual abuse of children at the prestigious Lakeville-based Hotchkiss School, a Rhode Island man has filed a lawsuit alleging he was groomed for abuse and sexually assaulted by a former English teacher in the 1990s.

In the federal lawsuit filed late Friday evening in U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut, a former student, identified with the pseudonym of Richard Roe, said he was sexually assaulted in his junior year by…