CONNECTICUT
New Zealand Herald
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) The Latest on a lawsuit accusing a Connecticut rabbi of sexually abusing a Jewish boarding school student (all times local):
12:15 p.m.
A Connecticut rabbi denies allegations in a lawsuit that he raped and molested a teenager hundreds of times when the boy was a student at a Jewish boarding school in New Haven more than a decade ago.
The lawsuit by Eliyahu (el-ee-YAH’-hu) Mirlis, now 28, of New Jersey, was filed Tuesday in federal court and seeks unspecified damages. It accuses Rabbi Daniel Greer, principal of Yeshiva of New Haven, of sexual abuse. The Associated Press generally doesn’t name people who allege sexual assault, but Mirlis wanted to come forward, his lawyer said.
Greer’s attorney, William Ward, said Greer denies the allegations and is now forced to prove they are false. Ward asked the public to ask for evidence before rushing to judgment.
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