CLEVELAND (AP) — A former faculty dance instructor in Cleveland faces as much as life jail after being convicted Thursday of raping six teenage college students and sexually abusing two others.
Jurors in Cuyahoga County Widespread Pleas Court docket additionally discovered Terence Greene responsible of kidnapping and felonious assault prices.
Greene, 57, was an acclaimed dance instructor who helped launch the careers of many younger dancers, together with some who carried out on Broadway.
Prosecutors stated Greene started sexually abusing a 14-year-old boy within the late Nineties, quickly after he was employed by the Cleveland Metropolitan Faculty District.
The eight victims within the case had been ages 14 to 17 when the abuse started, prosecutors stated.
Greene resigned from a highschool for the humanities in 2014 and later started working at Cuyahoga Group Faculty, the place the abuse continued till 2019, based on prosecutors.
A message looking for remark was left with Greene’s lawyer on Thursday.
In 2021, the Cleveland public faculty district agreed to pay a $3.25 million settlement after eight former college students filed a lawsuit accusing the varsity of failing to analyze previous claims of sexual abuse in opposition to Greene.
Greene had been discovered not responsible of sexual battery prices involving a pupil in 2004 and returned to show that 12 months.
The scholars’ lawsuit stated the varsity allowed Greene to proceed to share lodge rooms with college students on school-sanctioned journeys.
After resigning in 2014, Greene started instructing at Cuyahoga Group Faculty’s dance academy for kids. The faculty has denied being conscious of Greene’s previous claims of sexual abuse.
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