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New Haven Register
By Anna Bisaro, New Haven Register
POSTED: 05/03/16
BRIDGEPORT >> Former New Haven police commissioner Rabbi Daniel Greer is accused in a federal lawsuit of the rape of a student at a Jewish school in the city.
More than 10 years after the alleged abuse, a former student at the Yeshiva of New Haven and The Gan School, Eliyahu Mirlis, now 28, is claiming he was raped by Greer during his sophomore, junior and senior years as a boarding student.
Greer served as the rabbi, school principal, chief administrator, president, director and treasurer of the schools at the time of the alleged abuse, according to the federal complaint filed in U.S. District Court.
“Dozens and dozens of times for a period of years, Greer sexually assaulted and abused a young boy in his care,”said the victim’s attorney, Antonio Ponvert III of the Bridgeport-based firm Koskoff, Koskoff & Bieder. “The complaint describes a child molester who, as all child molesters do, preyed on a vulnerable child.”
According to the federal complaint, Mirlis was 15 when the abuse started and Greer was in his 60s.
The complaint alleges that the sexual abuse sometimes lasted entire nights and Mirlis was forced to partake in sexual acts, to watch pornography, and was provided alcohol by Greer. The alleged abuse occurred on school property, in Greer’s bedroom, in motels in Branford and in some rental properties in New Haven owned by the schools, according to the complaint.
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