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Published yesterday on the jewish news site JTA:
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Families sue DC synagogue preschool alleging it ignored child sexual abuse
April 16, 2019 3:22 pm
(JTA) — The families of eight children who attended the preschool at a prominent Washington, D.C., synagogue have filed a lawsuit accusing the school of ignoring signs that a teacher was abusing children.
The civil suit accuses the school of failing to protect the children from “a known and avoidable risk of sexual abuse” by a teacher employed at the Washington Hebrew Congregation’s Edlavitch-Tyser Early Childhood Center from 2014 until he was suspended in 2018 over allegations that he “may have engaged in inappropriate conduct involving one or more children.”
A statement sent to media outlets by the families’ attorneys said the male teacher “was allowed and encouraged to be alone with the children individually and in small groups,” and that the alleged abuse affected both boys and girls aged 2 to 4.
“The abuse included the most grievous, demeaning and damaging forms of sexual abuse,” it said.
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https://www.jta.org/quick-reads/fami...d-sexual-abuse