CONNECTICUT
Independent (UK)
Feliks Garcia New York @feliksjose
This article contains descriptions of sexual abuse of a minor.
A former student of a Connecticut Jewish boarding school has filed a lawsuit accusing a rabbi of sexually abusing him hundreds of times between 2001 and 2005.
The lawsuit filed by 28-year-old Eliyahu Mirlis seeks damages from the all-boys high school Yeshiva New Haven school, The Gan School, and Rabbi Daniel Greer, 75, who served as principal of both. According to the Associated Press, the suit alleges that the schools enabled the sexual abuse to continue for years.
Mr Mirlis – who expressed his wish to be named by AP and come forward – seeks unspecified damages. He is not pursuing criminal charges, but said he will cooperate with any ensuing criminal investigations, should they arise.
“Rabbi Greer was in his sixties when he forced minor Eli to engage in acts of sex with him,” the lawsuit reads. “Rabbi Greer frequently gave Eli alcohol at the time he raped and assaulted his child victim. Rabbi Greet showed Eli pornographic films.”
Mr Greer is also accused in the lawsuit of abusing Mr Mirlis on school grounds, at the rabbi’s home, at properties managed by the school, and in various motels in Connecticut and Pennsylvania.
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