At a news conference Oct. 3, Dominique Penson of Barasch McGarry Salzman & Penson and Irwin Zalkin of Zalkin Law Firm listen as Amala Muhammed Redd, who is suing the Brooklyn Friends School after allegedly being abused in the 1980s, talks about how the New York Child Victims Act has allowed her to pursue legal action. (Photo by Jason Grant)
At a stirring news conference on Thursday, a 47-year-old woman who has filed a lawsuit against the Brooklyn Friends School after allegedly being abused and raped there by a janitor when she was 8 years old, described how the state’s Child Victims Act has changed her life.
Standing in a Manhattan conference room before a contingent of reporters, Amala Muhammed Redd painfully detailed—sometimes while crying openly—how the male janitor called her out of her third-grade class repeatedly, and then told her to wait inside a darkened closet where he would soon abuse her. Then she also talked about the moment, earlier this year, when she learned about the Child Victims Act, and how hearing about what it meant for her—that after decades of pain, she could finally take legal action—was a revelation.
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