Add The New York Post on Google A Brooklyn public high school worker routinely rendezvoused with a teenage girl in empty rooms for sickening daytime trysts – while administrators shrugged off abuse complaints, a bombshell new lawsuit claimed.
Former student Brittany Linton, now a grown mother of five, claimed that Canarsie High School worker Kevin Gilford Orr made her life a living nightmare in a series of rapes in the early 2000s — but the accused shrugged off the lawsuit and shockingly told The Post Thursday that “she was at least 19 at the time.”
But Linton said in papers and an interview that the “violent, criminal sex acts” started at the now-shuttered school back in 2005, when she was just 15 and the alleged creep was checking in students for lunch.
“He was supposed to be my supporter, not my abuser,” Linton said. “I trusted him to look out for me and instead he took advantage of my vulnerability and violated me, and my trust.”
The Brooklyn Supreme Court suit blames the city’s Department of Education, claiming that officials “carelessly, negligently, and recklessly ignored and dismissed” complaints of “sexual abuse made against him.”
“I have serious concerns about how this was handled,” she told The Post in an interview, claiming that no teacher or school official appeared concerned when Orr would remove her from math class weekly to rape her in an empty room down the hall.
Orr emphatically denied the allegations, and said while he knew Linton as a student and that they had a physical relationship when she was “at least 19.”
“This is crazy,” Orr told The Post, “none of that ever happened…This is a money grab.”
Linton told The Post that Orr allegedly started grooming her when she was just 15 years old as he checked students into lunch.
According to public records, Orr spent several years as a full-time public school aide.
“It started off with him making snarky comments or grabbing my hand when I walked past,” she claimed, adding that at first, she laughed things off.
But six months into her freshman year, Orr allegedly handed her his camera phone “and told me to go to the bathroom during lunch and take pictures of my private areas,” Linton claimed.
“After the pictures, that’s when the sexual abuse started.”
It allegedly started with Orr pulling her out of detention, Linton said, but soon morphed into a nightmare of routine daytime abuse.
Her lawsuit claims that Orr abused her through 2009, “on multiple occasions and in multiple ways, including but not limited to forcibly removing her clothing; taking naked pictures of her; touching her breasts, buttocks, and genitals; masturbation; oral sex; and sexual intercourse.”
“He would promise that I would be able to cut class if I met him in a specific area,” Linton told The Post, alleging she was told to meet him in a small, empty room for her entire 40-minute math class multiple times a week.
The abuse spilled over into afterschool, Linton said, claiming Orr would pick her up to go to a movie — and then take her to his Brooklyn home after.
Linton began acting out and became depressed, eventually landing her in foster care and dropping out of school, derailing her lifelong dream of becoming a pilot, and claims Orr continued to see her regularly until 2009, the lawsuit claimed.
“I’m seeking accountability,” Linton said. “I was failed.”
“Somebody should have been asking: ‘Why is this student being pulled out of class? Why is she being taken to an empty room over and over again?’” said her attorney, Rachel Jacobs, partner at PCVA Law.
“They had a duty to have policies and procedures in place to protect students like Brittany,” Jacobs said, “and to make sure those policies and procedures were being enforced, and they clearly weren’t.”
Linton has since started a family, earned her GED and now works an office job for a major international airline, with plans to enroll in school for aviation engineering this spring.
“If I would have finished school, I probably would have been a pilot by now,” she said. “That’s one of the most heartbreaking things for me.”
When she finally decided to file a police report this year, they told her the case was too old to pursue charges, leading her to file this lawsuit. Under New York law, child sex victims can seek criminal charges until they turn 28, but can file civil lawsuits until their 55th birthday.
The alleged victim said she hopes her coming forward will encourage other victims to do the same.
“This can be happening anywhere — to anybody,” she said, adding that she hopes the city’s schools “can never again look the other way while a student is being groomed and taken advantage of.”
Canarsie High School, alma mater of Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa, closed in 2011 after years of failing performance and a reputation of disarray.
In 2000, a teacher was fired for having a sexual relationship with a student.
The city’s education department did not immediately respond for comment.
