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Walter Slapkowski, 60, was just a 13-year-old freshman at Bergen Catholic High School when a teacher allegedly sexually abused him.
He says he was sent to after-school detention for talking in class when a science teacher he identifies as Brother Timothy Joseph O’Sullivan took him into a back room.
“He asked me to take my clothes off then he brought me by the hand and said ‘I have to discipline you because you were talking in my class.’ He spanked me 20 times and made me count..and his fingers were traveling,” Slapkowski said.
He came forward last year, alongside 10 other alleged abuse victims at the school. The victims allege that five faculty members abused them during the 1950s and 1970s.
Dr. Robert Hoatson who works at a recovery center for child sexual abuse victims says the school has never apologized to the alleged victims and is dragging its feet in settling a monetary claim even though similar claims have been settled in past years at the school with as many as over a hundred victims over the past two decades.
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