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.”
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A former priest previously accused of sexual assault has again been identified in a Child Victims Act lawsuit.
The suit was filed last week in New York State Supreme Court in Chautauqua County. It alleges abuse by the Rev. John D. Lewandowski, who had previously been accused of abuse according to a list released by the Diocese of Buffalo.
The plantiff is identified in the suit as “M.L.”
The male victim was about 14 years old in 1960 when the alleged sexual assault took place during after-school activities at the Boys and Girls Club in Jamestown. Lewandowski reportedly provided services as a priest for the club.
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David Burgos says he was abused by a staff member at Pleasantville Cottage School in the mid-1980s. He s now suing under the Child Victims Act, one of many foster care kids with similar stories.Provided
ALBANY In the early 1980s, David Burgos was sent to Pleasantville Cottage School, a group home for troubled youth in Westchester County. Soon after his arrival, an assistant teacher asked him to stay after class to clean the blackboards.
The teacher sexually abused him, Burgos said in an interview. He never actually cleaned the blackboard, but no one ever said anything. “He told me that he had the power of whether I go home to my mother or not,” Burgos said.
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Colleen Garbarini has to make a plan before entering a grocery store: the mask can’t stay on too long. She knows the mask is there to protect her and others, but the feeling of it covering her face stirs deep emotions four decades in the making. At one point, she had to abandon her cart in a store as the oppressive feeling overtook her.
“The longer I had it on the more anxiety I had, which turned into a panic attack,” Garbarni said as she described the feeling. The mask takes her back to when she was a little girl and her abuser tried to quiet her when other people were nearby.