A former student who is suing the Gow School said a teacher raped him in his dormitory room in the 1990s after the two had discussed the studentâs sexuality earlier the same day.
Aaron J. Worby said Gow teacher Thomas Simmeth befriended him to the point that Worby became comfortable to tell him about an experience in the woods he had had with older Gow boys.
âI told Mr. Simmeth about my sexuality, that I liked guys,â Worby recalled. âThat very night, he snuck into my room, and he also raped me.â
Worby, 41, made the detailed accusations in a conference call with reporters Tuesday, more than a year after Manhattan attorney Robert J. Greenstein filed a Child Victims Act lawsuit on Worbyâs behalf.
New York City law firm Greenstein & Milbauer detailed the three ongoing Child Victims Act lawsuits on Tuesday in a virtual session with the media.
One of the suits is on behalf of 41-year-old Ohio man Aaron Worby. He alleges that English teacher Thomas Simmeth raped him while he was a student at Gow in the 1990s, when it was an all-boys school.
Worby said he confided in Simmeth about his sexuality and an experience he’d had in the woods with other Gow boys. Later that very same night, Worby said, Simmeth snuck into his dorm and raped him.
“It became so much shame that I couldn t speak about it. I couldn t tell anyone,” Worby told reporters over a Zoom conference. “And I had to live with this.”