Two years after an 89-year-old violin teacher was sentenced to 30 years in prison for multiple counts of child molestation, the insurer for the Gainesville music school he operated is asking a court to absolve it from liability for a civil suit filed by one of the victims. 

Leon Messerlian was 85 when Hall County authorities arrested him in 2015 on charges including child molestation, sexual battery and enticing a child for indecent purposes. The charges came after a 12-year-old student at his Oxford Academy of Classical Studies accused him of improperly touching him. Subsequent allegations from other students soon followed, and he pleaded guilty to multiple counts in 2017.  

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