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Alumnus Claims Englewood Public School Teachers Sexually Abused Him Nearly 50 Years Ago Alumnus Claims Englewood Public School Teachers Sexually Abused Him Nearly 50 Years Ago
Alumnus Claims Englewood Public School Teachers Sexually Abused Him Nearly 50 Years Ago A relatively new law in New Jersey allowed a man to sue the Englewood school district for what he said was sexual abuse by teachers more than 50 years ago. The man identified as “D.H.” in court papers contends that he was groomed as a victim, beginning when an Engle Street School teacher tackled and held him down on a 6th-grade overnight trip to Montreal in 1967. The teacher "held him down with the full weight of his body," the plaintiff contends. The same teacher then got him and other students to drink booze and smoke cigarettes with him in his apartment, the suit alleges. The teacher -…