CONNECTICUT
Wall Street Journal
By JOSEPH DE AVILA
May 3, 2016
A prominent Orthodox Jewish rabbi from New Haven, Conn., was accused in a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday of sexually abusing a former student.
The civil lawsuit alleges that Rabbi Daniel Greer, principal of a high school called the Yeshiva of New Haven, repeatedly abused a male student beginning in the fall of 2002, when the plaintiff was 15 years old and a sophomore. The plaintiff alleges that the abuse continued through his senior year.
William Ward, an attorney for Rabbi Greer, said he hadn’t reviewed the complaint and couldn’t comment on specific allegations.
“It only takes a moment to make allegations with despicable indifference to the consequences of the damages they would cause my client, his family and his reputation that he spent a lifetime building within his community,” he said.
“This is a difficult time for my client and his family,” Mr. Ward continued, “but I would remind the public to ask for evidence before rushing to judgment, as my client is now burdened with the task of proving that something did not happen 14 years ago.”
Rabbi Greer, 75 years old, also runs an elementary school in New Haven called the Gan School. He and his family drew national attention in the 1990s, when they were involved in a legal fight over coed dorms at Yale University, which his daughter attended.
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