Twenty men have filed suit against the Madison Square Boys & Girls Club, alleging the organization was negligent in allowing alleged sexual abuse by two staff members
Twenty men have filed suit against the Madison Square Boys & Girls Club, alleging the organization was negligent in allowing alleged sexual abuse by two staff members, one of whom was depicted in the 1978 memoir"The Basketball Diaries."
The complaint alleges gym director Nicholas"Lefty" Antonucci and"pool doctor" Dr. Reginald Archibald routinely and systematically abused boys at the club, and that the club"failed to address sexual abuse which was occurring in plain sight."Antonucci was featured as Lefty in"The Basketball Diaries," a memoir by Jim Carroll, the lawsuit states. The book was adapted into a movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio.
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