A school district in southern New Jersey will pay $6 million to settle a lawsuit brought by two students who say they were sexually assaulted by a former high school teacher over a period of years.
The boys say they were assaulted by Nicholas Zaccaria, a social studies and history teacher at Edgewood High School (now known as Winslow Township High School) from 1998 to 2003, on separate occasions every few weeks. had filed a lawsuit. Mr. Zaccaria was also a theater consultant. The students participated as teenagers in the Stage Staff Club.
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Both men claimed that Zaccaria targeted them for sexual abuse. He allegedly took them separately to high-end steakhouses and Italian restaurants and gave them money from stage staff’s petty cash accounts.
A New Jersey school district has reached a settlement with two men who say they were repeatedly sexually abused by their teachers between 1998 and 2003.
The Winslow School Board approved the settlement in December without admitting liability. District Superintendent H. Major Poteet and Mount Laurel attorney Matthew J. Baer, who is representing the district, declined to comment on the settlement, as did Zacharias.
“These are important settlements,” Haddonfield attorney John Baldante, who represented the two students, told the Philadelphia Inquirer. He said each man would receive $3 million in a structured settlement.
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“Victims of child sexual abuse now have a voice,” Baldante said.
