ROCKLAND COUNTY (NY)
Rockland/Westchester Journal News
Nov. 19, 2019
By Frank Esposito
A former youth sports coach is accused of molesting a student at Immaculate Heart of Mary School in Scarsdale in a Child Victims Act case filed earlier this month.
Edwin Gaynor, of Ossining, was accused of fondling David Fox and possibly others during gym class during the early 1960s, according to a case filed in Westchester County civil court.
The suit also accuses that the Archdiocese of New York knew about the abuse and instead of dealing with the issue, moved Gaynor to other schools. No other schools are mentioned in the lawsuit.
The moving of Gaynor from facility to facility was consistent with a practice called “move the trash,” said plaintiff attorney Barbra Hart of White Plains-based Lowey Dannenberg in the lawsuit.
This latest lawsuit is one of more than 1,000 cases filed under the New York Child Victims Act, a law which allows people to sue for abuse regardless of the statute of limitations.
The final Mass at St. Mary’s Church in Haverstraw, during the Feast of the Assumption, was held Aug. 15, 2015. The church is being merged with nearby St. Peter’s Church under the Archdiocese of New York’s “Making All Things New” plan. The church was founded in 1898.
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