Student seeks compensation in Madison HS sex scandal case
A civil suit was filed on Wednesday afternoon in Kings County Supreme Court against the New York City Department of Education (DOE) and former teacher Erin Sayar for their alleged role in the sexual assault and battery of high school student Kevin Eng.
The suit, brought by Brooklyn attorney Bruce Baron on behalf of his clients Kevin Eng and his mother, Maureen Eng, alleges that the City of New York in general and the DOE in particular were negligent in hiring Sayar, and that they failed to report or investigate allegations of sexual abuse.
In May 2012, Erin Sayar, 36, a former English teacher at James Madison High School in Marine Park, was accused of sexually assaulting her student Eng. Sayar subsequently turned herself in to Brooklyn’s Special Victims Unit on the eight criminal counts of statutory rape, 16 counts of sexual abuse of a minor and other related charges. She was released on $10,000 bail.