School districts face sex abuse claims under Child Victims Act

ALBANY ⁠(NY)
Times Union

August 19, 2019

By Rachel Silberstein

A female gym teacher who allegedly groomed and sexually abused a 13-year-old girl at a western New York middle school in the 1970s gained access to the pupil by visiting her home to offer comfort when the girl’s mother died.

A former science teacher at Buffalo Public Schools is accused of harassing, exposing, and molesting a male student approximately five days a week over the course of two years in the 1980s when the teen was 14 and 15. He was placed in the alleged pedophile’s care for study hall, class, tutoring, after-school activities, and summer school, according to court documents.

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