JBG
Liberal democrat
Article in this morning's Journal News (Westchester-Rockland) Decades-old sex-abuse claim against assistant coach puts focus on Nyack schools. Excerpt:
The guy died in 2006. That's 18 years ago. A lawsuit was filed against his assistant coach, Peter Recla, under the Child Victims Act. It basically allows cases with respect to which the Statue of Limitations expired to be filed. Mind you, no one is accusing Siegriest of doing anything wrong. It was for not policing his assistant. And also, the original statue of limitations gave a period of time after the victim achieved majority, I forget whether it's 18 or 21, to file a suit. Allowing ancient allegations to be dredged up is unjust. The defendant may literally have no way of defending him- or herself, since witnesses, likely other students, have long dispersed from the area. Memories fade. This is part of the trend to entropy, both in the law and other areas.Journal News said:UPPER NYACK − The Nyack school board on Tuesday plans to vote on a resolution to strike the name of a former varsity baseball coach from the home field and scoreboard, scrap a scholarship in his honor and cease a memorial tournament named after him.
At the root of the push by a group of former Nyack baseball players to remove former varsity coach Dave Siegriest's name: accusations of child sex abuse against his longtime assistant coach, Peter Recla.
Why is this all coming up now? And what does it have to do with Siegriest, who died in 2006 at age 43 of pancreatic cancer?