A former student at The Hotchkiss School, an exclusive college preparatory school in Connecticut, was drugged and sexually assaulted by a former teacher, according to a newly filed federal lawsuit.
The Oct. 12 complaint by the former student—identified only as “Richard Roe"—is the latest sexual abuse case filed against the boarding school alleging there was “rampant” sexual abuse on the 827-acre campus, particularly in the 1970s and 1980s.
Roy Smith, who taught English at Hotchkiss from 1970 to 2000 and died in 2014, “inappropriately touched Richard on several occasions, and ultimately drugged and sexually assaulted him,” the complaint in the ...
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