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25 April 2017

Hampstead woman files sex abuse suit against former Phillips teacher

BOSTON — When Marie Sapienza became a student at Phillips Academy Andover in the 1980s, she had dreams of becoming a doctor. But by her junior year, she said, after being sexually assaulted by a teacher, she would have settled for making it to graduation day.
At a press conference Monday morning, Sapienza tearfully talked about former English teacher and poet Alexander Theroux, who she said "robbed her of a normal life" when he fondled her on one occasion in his on-campus residence when she was 15.

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