CONNECTICUT
Courthouse News Service
By NICK RUMMELL
HARTFORD, Conn. (CN) — A prominent Connecticut rabbi raped and sodomized a teenage boy at the yeshiva where he was principal dozens of times over a four-year period, the former student claims in a federal complaint.
Now a resident of New Jeresy, Eliyahu Mirlis says the abuse began in 2002 when he was a 15-year-old sophomore boarding at the Gan School in New Haven.
Along with Rabbi Daniel Greer, The school and its yeshiva are also named as defendants in the suit.
Mirlis says Greer was in his 60s hen he “forced the minor Eli to engage in acts of sex with him, including forced fellatio, anal sex, fondling, and masturbation.”
Greer frequently plied Mirlis with alcohol before raping him and occasionally showed him pornographic films, the complaint states.
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