NEW YORK (NY)
Daily News
Nov. 19, 2019
By Larry McShane
A newly-filed sexual abuse lawsuit recounts how a former Poly Prep high school football star was allegedly kissed, groped and rubbed by a predatory Episcopal priest teaching at the scandal-scarred Brooklyn school in the mid-1970s.
The plaintiff, identified only as John Doe, was “filled with confusion, anxiety and self-loathing,” read the 16-page Brooklyn Supreme Court suit filed Tuesday. “He had suicidal thoughts as a way to make the pain and shame stop … He was haunted by the fact that the first person that ever kissed him was (his teacher).”
The accuser, now more than 60 years old, was just 15 when he was first targeted over a two-year period, according to the lawsuit. He told no one about what happened for decades, but finally filed his suit 43 years after graduation as part of the Child Victims Act look-back period.
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