Female Student’s Sexual Abuse Accusation Against NYC Revived

The New York City Department of Education must face a female student’s claim under the city’s human rights law, alleging that she was sexually abused by its employees while in middle and high school, a federal court said.

Jane Doe sued the department of education and her teacher, Mark Waltzer—along with dismissed non-party defendants—alleging she was sexually abused by a school janitor in middle school and by several male teachers while attending high school from 1998 to 2001. The question for Judge Frederick Block of the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York was whether two time-barred ...