“For years, as MSBC claimed that it provided young boys with a safe place to belong and stay out of trouble, it was instead giving serial child predators unfettered and unsupervised access to thousands of New York City children,” Jennifer Freeman, one of the plaintiffs’ lawyers said. The lawsuit was filed under the Child Victims Act that went into effect last month, opening up a one-year “lookback” window for former child victims to bring old claims that have since passed the statute of limitations. Some of the plaintiffs in the suit also say they were victims of notorious pediatrician Reginald Archibald, who allegedly sexually abused over 1000 children during annual exams where he would fondle them, force them in sex acts and take nude pictures of them. The coach then attempted to allegedly violate the boy as he came down the pole, the lawsuit claims.Īntonucci was eventually convicted for sexually abusing children, according to the lawsuit.
Reginald Archibald ProvidedĪntonucci also made a boy climb up a totem pole while he was naked and other boys looked on. In the 1995 movie, Lefty’s character was renamed Swifty to avoid lawsuits, the court papers say.Īntonucci allegedly touched the boys inappropriately on away basketball games and while he “wrestled” and “horse played” with them, the court papers charge.ĭuring overnights on the club roof, he is accused of going skinny dipping with the boys and playing “games” involving their genital areas, the court documents allege.
Jim Carroll’s 1978 memoir “The Basketball Diaries” - later adapted into a movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio - detailed a gym coach “Lefty,” based on Antonucci, who “likes to do funny things to you like put his hands between your legs,” according to the lawsuit. Nicholas Antonucci, the club’s long-time gym director and basketball coach, allegedly “fondled boys’ genitals” inside the gym, locker room, closets and swimming pool in view of other staffers, according to the Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit filed Monday. The coach who inspired a character in “The Basketball Diaries” sexually abused young boys from the 1950s through the 1980s, according to a lawsuit filed by 20 alleged victims against the Madison Square Boys and Girls Club. How the Child Victims Act uncovered NY's dark history of child sex abuse New woman steps forward alleging Jeffrey Epstein raped her
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