New York City law firm Greenstein & Milbauer detailed the three ongoing Child Victims Act lawsuits on Tuesday in a virtual session with the media.
One of the suits is on behalf of 41-year-old Ohio man Aaron Worby. He alleges that English teacher Thomas Simmeth raped him while he was a student at Gow in the 1990s, when it was an all-boys school.
Worby said he confided in Simmeth about his sexuality and an experience he’d had in the woods with other Gow boys. Later that very same night, Worby said, Simmeth snuck into his dorm and raped him.
“It became so much shame that I couldn t speak about it. I couldn t tell anyone,” Worby told reporters over a Zoom conference. “And I had to live with this.”