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'Camp Ramah' Director Mishandled Teen's Sex Assault Case In Western Mass, Lawsuit Says 'Camp Ramah' Director Mishandled Teen's Sex Assault Case In Western Mass, Lawsuit Says
'Camp Ramah' Director Mishandled Teen's Sex Assault Case In Western Mass, Lawsuit Says The director of a popular Jewish sleep-away camp in Western Massachusetts has been removed from the position after a scathing lawsuit accused him of trying to cover up a sex abuse claim made by a teen girl. Ethan Linden, who worked at Camp Ramah in the Berkshires, is accused of telling the 15-year-old girl from New Jersey in 2018 that he wouldn't tell anyone about how she woke up to a boy putting his fingers inside of her genitals, reads the suit, filed in Manhattan federal court. The girl allegedly told her head counselor, who told camp officials, but after days without hearing back, she h…

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