CONNECTICUT
The Mirror
Twenty-one new lawsuits filed last Thursday allege that Fairfield University and others failed to supervise Douglas Perlitz ‘92, who was sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison for sexually abusing boys at a school he founded in Haiti.
These new cases bring the total of lawsuits against Fairfield and others to 26, said the victims’ attorney, Mitchell Garabedian. The lawsuits demand $20 million for each victim.
The plaintiffs of the new lawsuits are ages 18 through 27, and they were abused from 2000 to 2008 at ages 10 to 20, according to Garabedian. Some were abused by Perlitz repeatedly, he added.
Garabedian is also investigating 30 other victims.
In addition to Fairfield, other defendants include Society of Jesus of New England and Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta.
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