Disturbing new claims of how a New York City public school teacher silenced and abused a third-grade student decades ago have emerged \u2014 a week after a jury awarded the victim a staggering $18 million verdict.<\/p>\n
The victim\u2019s lawyer detailed the sickening way the now-dead teacher held the poor child\u2019s mouth closed while he molested him for 30 minutes inside an auditorium full of his classmates.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s never come out of the auditorium,\u201d the victim\u2019s attorney Jeff Herman told The Post in an exclusive interview. \u201cIt took away a future for him \u2014 he always wanted to be ordinary and he struggled.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
A man who was sexually assaulted multiple times by a sicko Brooklyn teacher at Red Hook\u2019s P.S. 15 decades ago won a staggering $18 million jury verdict this week.<\/p>\n
The delayed justice come nearly five decades after parents boycotted the school for covering up the teacher\u2019s sickening acts, court records show, and years after the sicko teacher passed away.<\/p>\n
The courthouse win for the victim, who was then a third-grader and is only known as A.P. in court docs, marks a historic milestone as the first lawsuit under 2019\u2019s Child Victims Act to reach a jury verdict.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis result is a historic acknowledgment that survivors deserve justice,\u201d Herman said.<\/p>\n
In the early 1970s, music teacher John Clark fondled multiple young boys during class movies in the P.S. 15 auditorium in Red Hook, according to the 2021 Kings County Supreme Court lawsuit.\u00a0<\/p>\n
For A.P., a resident of the Red Hook Houses, that meant being forced by Clark to sit on his lap in the darkened room while he was forcibly assaulted on two occasions, the suit states.<\/p>\n
During one of the sickening assaults, Clark violated the 10-year-old with his finger for 30 minutes \u2014 and when he tried to cry out and scream, Clark put his hand over his mouth to silence him and continued molesting him, said Herman.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A man who was sexually assaulted multiple times by a sicko Brooklyn teacher years ago won a staggering $18 million jury verdict this week Kings County Supreme Court<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile he was being molested, he tried to cry out and scream, and Clark put his hand over his mouth,\u201d Herman said, \u201cand sort of suffocated him for a half hour\u2026it really broke him.\u201d<\/p>\n
As Herman\u2019s firm investigated the case, it discovered parents had been so outraged by the school\u2019s failure to take action that they staged a boycott of the school months after allegations were made in December 1970.<\/p>\n
The school\u2019s then-principal, Edwin Gardner, transferred the alleged victim out of the music class but kept Clark at the school under supervision, according to a March 1971 New York Times article.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cThis result is a historic acknowledgment that survivors deserve justice,\u201d said attorney Jeff Herman. Herman Law<\/p>\n Gardner told parents he would supervise the pervy teacher to prevent further incidents, Herman said, \u201cbut that didn\u2019t happen.\u201d<\/p>\n Notes from a special school board meeting where parents sounded off to officials were also unearthed by Herman\u2019s firm, as investigators discovered one attendee said<\/a> the only thing the school did in response to the molestation allegations was to \u201cslap the teacher on the hand.\u201d<\/p>\n Clark was arrested, and parents demanded Gardner be suspended \u2014 but the superintendent refused, leading to a one-day boycott that was \u201c90 per cent effective,\u201d the Times said.<\/p>\n