Staten Island man, 72, files Child Victims Act suit over alleged 1960s abuse by Poly Prep teachers

NEW YORK (NY)
Daily News

February 2, 2020

By Larry McShane

For Brooklyn Poly Prep County Day School alum Richard Rubin, the typical 3 Rs of education came with a fourth: Rape.

Rubin, now a genteel 72-year-old Staten Island resident, alleges in a newly-filed Child Victims Act lawsuit that he was sexually abused on a weekly basis between 1960-65 by a cabal of five predatory teachers at the prestigious school. Rubin was even taken to the apartment of the most aggressive instructor for one-on-one assaults, according to court papers.

“It would be really nice to kick Poly in the teeth and let them take notice of what went on,” Rubin told the Daily News after the Brooklyn Supreme Court suit was filed. “If not for the money, Poly might not take any notice. The headmaster, the dean of boys, the athletics department— they basically all let this go on.

“It was a horrible time.”

His attorney David Oddo, after vetting the incredible tale of long-running abuse, said Poly operated more like a ’70s bathhouse than a college preparatory school.

The predatory quintet “anally raped and viciously sexually assaulted the plaintiff on a weekly basis … on school premises, including but not limited to the locker room, classrooms and under the stairwells,” the lawsuit alleged.

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