New Yeshiva University Sex-Abuse Claims

By Rich Calder
New York Post
October 1, 2013

http://nypost.com/2013/10/01/new-yeshiva-university-sex-abuse-claims/

Dozens of former students have alleged they were sexually abused at Yeshiva University.

Already facing a $380 million sex-abuse lawsuit brought by 34 former students of its prestigious all-boys high school, Yeshiva University on Monday was hit with two more such allegations — one dating back nearly 60 years.

Kevin Mulhearn, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, filed papers in Manhattan federal court saying that he recently had received phone calls from two other former students, who are not yet part of the lawsuit but who offered their own horror stories.

One claims that in 1955, Rabbi Macy Gordon tried for 15 minutes to give him a “mishey” — a term for pinning a boy down and rubbing toothpaste on his penis.

Gordon in the suit is accused of sodomizing one victim with a toothbrush during a 1980 attack in a school dorm room.

The other ex-student alleges that another university staffer charged in the suit, George Finkelstein, repeatedly used a master key to enter dorm rooms in the mid-1980s to accost students.

The two ex-students say they complained to school officials but were ignored, Mulhearn wrote.