NEW YORK
New York Daily News
CAN’T PURSUE SICKO’S ENABLERS
There is no question Bob Oliva sexually abused former Queens resident Jimmy Carlino. The longtime Christ the King High School basketball coach admitted he assaulted Carlino during a 1976 trip to Massachusetts when he pleaded guilty to two counts of rape of a child in a Boston courtroom in 2011. But Oliva’s attorney says he has no assets, and the Archdiocese of Brooklyn and Christ the King were dismissed as defendants in a lawsuit Carlino filed five years ago because of the statute of limitations. “He can’t go after the people who covered up for Oliva because of the statute of limitations,” Carlino’s attorney Michael Dowd said. “Oliva can’t possibly compensate him for what he has suffered.” …
HORROR AT YESHIVA HIGH
In 1980, a boy identified as John Doe II, a 14-year-old student at Yeshiva University High School for Boys in Manhattan, says he was sodomized by his Judaic dies teacher, Macy Gordon. Gordon allegedly sodomized the boy with a toothbrush, a method he’s accused of using on other boys at the school. Yeshiva University received multiple reports of Gordon’s alleged sexual assaults of children, from the late 1960s to early ’80s, but did nothing to stop him or warn unsuspecting students. A traumatized John Doe II attempted suicide in his dorm room minutes after he was attacked. Weeks later, he and his father reported Gordon’s alleged attack to a high-ranking Yeshiva administrator. The school continued to employ Gordon and didn’t punish him. Several years later, after finally firing Gordon for sexual misconduct, the school continued to honor Gordon and endowed a scholarship in his name. John Doe II (along with 33 fellow accusers who claimed they were abused by Gordon or George Finkelstein, a school principal) had his claims repeatedly dismissed by New York federal and state courts on statute of limitations grounds, even though he didn’t learn of the school’s own misconduct, coverup, and facilitation of his abuse until December 2012.
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