Sues over S.I. library sex harass
ORANGE CARNATIONS arranged in the shape of a basketball, with the initials “MM” in blue, stood next Matthew McCree’s white casket.
Soft sobs and the sounds of mourners openly weeping echoed through the murmuring crowd on Friday at the Castle Hill Funeral Home in the Bronx, where a wake was held for the 15-year-old.
“I’m living day by day,” the teen’s mother, Louna Dennis, 34, told the Daily News as she fought back tears. “He was my baby. Now he is gone.” Matthew was fatally stabbed by a fellow A STATEN ISLAND college library was more like a sexually charged locker room than a place of quiet study, according to a new lawsuit.
Roger McSorley said he was subjected to sexual harassment, unwanted advances and a hostile work environment from his former Wagner College supervisor, according to his Staten Island Supreme Court lawsuit.
McSorley said in court papers, that the inappropriate behavior from his past boss Timothy Hickey started almost immediately after he started the library job in October 2014. student last month in the middle of a history class at the Urban Assembly School for Wildlife Conservation.
The teen’s best pal, Ariane LaBoy, 16, was wounded in the attack when accused killer Abel Cedeno stabbed the pair with a switchblade he bought on Amazon.
In a jailhouse interview with The News, Cedeno, 18 said he was being constantly harassed for being bisexual and “just snapped.”
The bloodshed played out in front of a classroom full of students.
It was the first time a student was killed inside of a city school since 1993.
On Friday, dozens of Matthew’s classmates streamed into the Castle Hill funeral
Hickey allegedly peppered him with questions about his sex life, how many times he masturbated and sort of pornography he preferred.
McSorley, who is not gay, asked Hickey to stop and according to the lawsuit, Hickey fired back by saying McSorley was “‘gay bashing’ when he would complain,” and that McSorley “was preventing Hickey from being himself.”
The R-rated incidents in the library allegedly included Hickey’s sudden grab for McSorley’s inner thigh and home wearing black T-shirts with Matthew’s portrait and phrase, “Rest In Peace Matt.”
They made their way to the front of the room and leaned over the casket, where a white suit hung on high schooler’s slim frame, accented by a blue tie and blue handkerchief in the breast pocket.
Hundreds of others, including teachers, neighbors, relatives and Mayor de Blasio and his wife Chirlane McCray, joined the kids as they said goodbye to the popular junior.
De Blasio and McCray spoke briefly to Dennis after paying their respects.
Matthew will be buried on Saturday at Canarsie Cemetery in Brooklyn. crotch, court papers said. McSorley alleges he said he was not gay, not attracted to him and didn’t want Hickey touching him like that again.
Hickey was fired from Wagner College in August, according to the suit. McSorley’s lawyer told the Staten Island Advance his client still works for the college. McSorley claims he was blocked from filing complaints with Wagner’s human resources department. A college spokesman said he couldn’t comment on pending litigation or personnel matters.