NE YORK
New York Post
By JULIA MARSH
Last Updated: 7:38 AM, May 6, 2013
EXCLUSIVE
It was a pedophile’s paradise.
That’s how Marlene Hodge, now 52, remembers the girls dorm at a New York boarding school for deaf children, where she and nearly a dozen former students allege a staffer molested his charges at night for almost 20 years.
“I would pretend to be asleep hoping he would eventually go away,” Hodge told The Post, saying the alleged assaults by dorm dad Joe Casucci at the New York School for the Deaf in White Plains have been seared into her memory. …
Hodge said she was encouraged to come forward after a group of Wisconsin men sued the Catholic Church for sex abuse they suffered at the hands of a priest in the ’50s.
She believes the New York School for the Deaf was aware of the abuse for “a long time” because she says her classmates reported it to staff. She said she regrets not telling anyone at the time, including her own mother, who was the PTA president.
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