Chaminade Named In New Suit Alleging Sexual Abuse
The victim, identified only as John Doe, said the abuse took place between 1966 and 1969.
Chaminade College Preparatory School has been named as a defendant in a suit filed Thursday in St. Louis County Court, alleging the school knew a former coach and teacher, now deceased, was a sexual abuse risk to students before the unidentified plaintiff was allegedly victimized as a student during the late 1960s. The suit also names the Marianist Province of the United States, and Provincial Rev. Martin Solma. Click here to read the complaint The petition claims Brother Louis Meinhardt sought out the plaintiff for "private tutoring sessions" during which time Meinhardt "grabbed Plaintiff's penis and fondled his genitals," and that it was "common knowledge" in the student body that Meinhardt watched children shower and grabbed their …
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BillHannegan
6:22 am on Friday, February 24, 2012
I attended Chaminade from 1969 through 1975. I was in Meinhardt's Latin and typing classes. I got hugged and roughed up by him in front of class for not doing my homework as did many others. No sexual abuse. I believe this man's repressed memory is playing tricks on him after all these years. Meinhardt did not have a reputation as a sexual abuser among my classmates during the six years I was at … more ›