Poly Prep tennis coach named in sexual assault lawsuit
An active tennis coach from the Poly Prep Country Day School is accused of sexually assaulting a student in the 1980s in a lawsuit filed this week under the Child Victims Act. It’s the second suit in as many months filed against the school under the law.
William Martire, who currently runs a tennis camp for kids ages three through 17, according to Poly Prep’s website, has been accused in the suit of sexually abusing and forcibly assaulting a then 14-year-old girl over a two-year period in the 1980s.
Last month, a suit was brought against John Miller, a now deceased Episcopal priest who taught humanities and Latin at Poly Prep. Both lawsuits were brought under the New York Child Victims Act, which gives alleged victims a one-year window to sue if the statute of limitations had passed.