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'Camp Ramah' Director Mishandled NJ Teen's Sex Assault Case, Lawsuit Says 'Camp Ramah' Director Mishandled NJ Teen's Sex Assault Case, Lawsuit Says
'Camp Ramah' Director Mishandled NJ Teen's Sex Assault Case, Lawsuit Says The director of popular Jewish sleep-away camp 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 from New Jersey. Ethan Linden, who worked at Camp Ramah of the Berkshires, is accused of telling the 15-year-old girl 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 apparently told her head counselor, who told camp officials. But after days without hearing back, she had a meeting with Linden a…

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