Another dozen former students of Yeshiva University’s prestigious all-boys high school are joining a lawsuit alleging that administrators there covered up decades of sexual and physical abuse.
Kevin Mulhearn, a lawyer for 19 ex-students at Marsha Stern
Talmudical Academy in Manhattan, told a judge in Manhattan federal court today
that he plans to update the scathing $380 million lawsuit filed last month to
include at least another 12 victims.
The suit alleges the university willfully turned a blind eye
while two of its rabbis sexually assaulted then-teenage boys there between 1969
and 1989. Mulhearn said he’d file a revised complaint with the new allegations
by August 13.
Karen Bitar, a Yeshiva lawyer, told Judge John Koeltl that
the university would file papers seeking he dismiss the case before it goes to
trial, adding “it is a very old case” based on allegations of actions that
happened decades ago.
Meanwhile, a lawyer for six other ex-students has said his
clients are poised to file a similar suit after failing to reach a settlement
with Yeshiva officials.
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