HILLSDALE, NJ — Lawyers are looking for other victims of a second grade teacher in the Hillsdale Public Schools who was the subject of two sex abuse lawsuits from former students this year, one of which already resulted in a $3 million settlement. On Sept. 8, a man filed a lawsuit saying he was sexually assaulted by a second grade teacher at George White Elementary School in 1981 and 1982. The man's lawyer, Scott Leonard of Morristown, said Friday that his client was actually the second to come forward to talk about abuse by teacher Howard Schultz years ago.

HILLSDALE, NJ — A man in his fifties filed a lawsuit against the Hillsdale Public Schools this week, saying he was sexually assaulted by a second grade teacher in the 1980s. The suit, filed in Superior Court in Bergen County on Monday, alleges that elementary teacher Howard Schultz — now deceased — sexually abused the victim while he was a student at George White Elementary School in 1981 and 1982. The suit says that the boy, then 7 or 8, was a student in a female teacher's classroom that was in close proximity to Schultz's class.

A former Hillsdale student alleges a teacher sexually abused him in the 1980s and that the school district failed to protect him. An unnamed plaintiff said he was sexually abused by second-grade teacher Howard Schultz, now deceased, when he was a student at George G. White Elementary School between 1981 and 1982. He filed a lawsuit in state Superior Court against the school district, the Hillsdale Board of Education and the school, saying they were liable for the abuse he suffered at the hands of Schultz.