Poly Prep football players warned freshmen of coach Phil Foglietta's sex abuse, school threatened discipline against reports: lawsuit

Part 2 of the explosive Poly Prep sex abuse scandal

BY Michael O'keeffe
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

Wednesday, December 7 2011, 2:10 AM

John Tracy for New York Daily News

Poly Prep Country Day School in Brooklyn is now in the shadow of a massive sex abuse scandal. A lawsuit is brought against the school for allegedly failing to act when Phil Foglietta (below) was reported to have abused many students.

Poly Prep Country Day School football players warned their teammates. Juniors and seniors told the freshmen: Don’t get into the green Impala with Phil Foglietta, the football coach at the elite private school in Dyker Heights, Brooklyn. Don’t go to the empty visitors’ locker room with him. Don’t let him take you to the squash courts.

But not everybody got the message.
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