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Suit accuses Brooklyn private school of covering up sexual abuse

Seven say they were molested by man who was the football coach
Oct. 27, 2009

From The New York Daily News: Seven former students at Poly Prep Country Day School in Brooklyn, N.Y., have sued the school on charges of covering up their complaints of sexual abuse against a longtime football coach.The suit accuses Poly Prep's current and former headmaster and trustees of the private school of conspiring to intimidate or muzzle victims who said they were molested by Philip Foglietta between 1966 and 1991. Foglietta died in 1998.

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