Crime & Safety

Teacher From Queens Accused Of Sexually Abusing 5 Children

Cops say an investigation into the 51-year-old Little Neck man began after the camp he worked at for 33 years received complaints about him.

LITTLE NECK, QUEENS -- A Nassau County teacher from Queens was arrested on Wednesday after complaints of sexual abuse were made against him at an upstate summer camp where he worked for more than three decades.

Dylan T. Stolz, 51, of Little Neck, was arrested Wednesday and charged with five counts of first-degree sexual abuse - one for each of the alleged victims, who were all under 11 years old, according to an NBC 4 report.

Police say the investigation into Stolz began on June 28, when officials at the Brant Lake Camp in Brant Lake received complaints about Stolz. He had been a counselor at the all-boys camp for the past 33 years.

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Stolz is a fourth grade teacher at Ogden Elementary School in the Hewlett-Woodmere School District.
Brant Lake Camp officials said they recently fired Stolz after they became aware of allegations of inappropriate touching, the Wall Street Journal reported. The camp notified police on June 28.

Stolz made $127,873 as a teacher in 2017, according to state records. He was arraigned in Glens Falls Court and remanded to the Warren County Jail after he couldn't make his bail.

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