In a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday, a New Jersey man accuses a
prominent rabbi from New Haven of repeatedly sexually assaulting him
when he was a teenager.
The target of the allegation is Rabbi
Daniel Greer, a well-known member of the Orthodox Jewish community in
New Haven and a former member of the city's board of police
commissioners and governor's commission on school choice. The suit was
filed electronically in U.S. District Court in Bridgeport Tuesday
morning, a court clerk said.
The suit names as co-defendants two schools run by the rabbi,
Yeshiva of New Haven, Inc. and The Gan School, Inc. It accused the
schools of "allowing the violent sexual abuse to continue unabated for
years."
It alleges that Greer sexually abused another male student as well. [...]
William Ward, Greer's attorney, said he hadn't seen the lawsuit and
couldn't address the specific allegations. But he questioned the
plaintiff's motives and the delay in bringing forward his allegations.
"It
only takes a moment to make allegations with despicable indifference to
the consequences of the damage they would cause to my client, to his
family and to his reputation that he spent a lifetime building in this
community. This is a difficult time for my client and his family, but I
would remind the public to ask for evidence before rushing to judgment."
"Ask
yourself why [the plaintiff] would wait 14 years. Ask yourself why [the
plaintiff] well into his adulthood, repeatedly honored the man he
accuses." He has repeatedly said the rabbi helped him personally in
several ways, Ward said.
"Ask yourself why [the plaintiff] himself
an Orthodox Jew, would not seek redress in the form of a rabbinical
arbitration court. Finally, ask yourself why [the plaintiff's] first
stop was his lawyer's office to seek money." [...]
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