Civil Plaintiff

Ex-Catholic School Student Awarded $5.4 Million in Sexual Abuse Case Against Principal

A $5.4 million verdict has been awarded to a former Siena Catholic Academy student who alleges he was sexually abused.

The plaintiff testified that he was sexually abused by Father Joseph Grasso, the school’s former principal, for more than a year starting in 2002, when he was just 12 years old. Grasso was the school administrator at the now-closed academy from 1998 to 2004.

In 2019, the New York Child Victims Act extended the statute of limitations for survivors of child sexual abuse to take their cases to court.

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