Woman Shares Horrifying Story of Molestation at Local School: Reports

A 52-year-old woman and one-time student at the New York School for the Deaf in White Plains has shared a horrifying tale of child abuse set in White Plains decades ago—and is hoping a civil lawsuit will bring her justice, according to newspaper reports.

Marlene Hodge, who attended the school in the 1960s and '70s, has come forth with a group of fellow students who say they were molested regularly by the girls dormitory overseer, the late Joe Casucci.

Hodge spoke with the New York Post about her past in a story published Monday morning. From the Post dispatch:

The Westchester County district attorney has declined to investigate the sex-abuse allegations because the case is too old.

So now Hodge and the other former students, who claim Casucci molested them in the 1960s and 1970s, have come together to build a civil case against the nation’s second-oldest institution for the deaf.

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