Former U.S. Rep. Gary Ackerman is accused of violating a teenager at a Boy Scout camp more than five decades ago.
FILE - In this Tuesday, June 28, 2011, file photo, then-U.S. Rep. Gary Ackerman, D-N.Y., visits a protest in Jerusalem. Former Congressman Ackerman is being called a sexual “predator” in a lawsuit accusing the New York Democrat of violating a teenager at a Boy Scout camp five decades ago.
NEW YORK — Former U.S. Rep. Gary Ackerman is being called a sexual “predator” in a lawsuit accusing the New York Democrat of violating a teenager at a Boy Scout camp five decades ago.Saturday that the now 76-year-old Ackerman allegedly abused the 17-year-old while he was a director at the Ten Mile River Camp near upstate Narrowsburg, west of Poughkeepsie, according to papers filed in state Supreme Court.
The Boy Scouts should have been aware that Ackerman was a “known predator” with the potential to harm kids, according to court papers cited by the newspaper. The Boy Scouts told the Post they had no record of any allegations against him. Michelen did not respond Saturday to a message from The Associated Press requesting comment. Nor did Jordan Merson, the attorney for the alleged victim who told the Post that New York’s recently enacted Child Victims Act gave his now 70-year-old client the chance to come forward.
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