Elite Upper East Side school sued over decades old sex abuse allegations

NEW YORK (NY)
New York Post

May 30, 2020

By Kathianne Boniello

Peter Defeo III remembers the moment, 50 years ago, when he thought his real-life nightmare would end.

He was alone at Manhattan’s prestigious Saint David’s School with teacher Robert Ludlow, as Ludlow once again molested him.

The terrified 8-year-old made eye contact through an open classroom door with a female administrator in the hall.

“I was hopeful that [she] would turn around and do something,” he told The Post.

Instead, she walked away, leaving DeFeo feeling “like I was totally alone on the planet.”

DeFeo, 59, detailed the horrific abuse in a $20 million Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit filed Saturday against the elite Upper East Side school, a bastion of privilege where Tom Brady’s son is a student and the late John F. Kennedy Jr. an alum.

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