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“All but one of the plaintiffs participated on Riverside’s sports teams while Lorch was in charge, from 1961-2002.”
“J.M., now 63, was 14 years old at the time of the abuse and living in a single-parent household in the Bronx.”
“described Lorch as “the ultimate alpha male in the gym.”
““So I’m going to mass and then communion and then that’s when the Catholic priests sexual abuse scandal broke in ’85.”
“Everybody deferred to him.” He then told a harrowing story of how Lorch used that status to abuse him, including rape and forced oral sex.”
““There was no supervision,” Franken said in his closing argument.”
“In his testimony, J.M.”
“On Wednesday, the six-person jury deliberated nearly five hours before finding Riverside was “reckless” and culpable for the player’s abuse, and ordered that J.M.”
“That hasn’t happened , and three former players have died while awaiting their day in court.”
“The first ended in a settlement for former Marist College star Daryl Powell in January just before the case was to be handed to the jury.”
“testified to some of the lasting impacts the abuse had on his life, including his mistrust of religion.”
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“Account Welcome Manage Account Manage Print Account Sign Out Log In Courts and Crime Riverside Church Ordered to Pay $11.3 Million to Child Sex Abuse Victim Ex-basketball player detailed sexual abuse by Ernest Lorch, the coach and powerful attorney of the once-vaunted basketball team By Luke Cyphers Luke Cyphers Riverside Church Abuse Cases Still Mired in Courts Six Months After First Trial Riverside Sex Abuse Trial: Famed Church Settles With Former Basketball Player Riverside Church Sex Abuse Trial Set to Conclude This Week View all posts by Luke Cyphers October 7, 2026 Add us as a Google Preferred Source Riverside Church in New York City Getty Images A former player for the Riverside Church basketball program was awarded $11.3 million by a New York jury Wednesday for the sexual abuse he suffered decades ago as a teenage member of the once-vaunted youth team.”
“During J.M.’s trial, the plaintiff’s attorneys lined up witness testimony from nine other alleged victims.”
“J.M., now a San Francisco Bay Area resident, was one of 27 plaintiffs alleging Lorch sexually abused them as children.”
“be paid $7.5 million for past pain and suffering and $3.8 million for future damages.”
“As Rolling Stone and Sportico have reported , the Riverside plaintiffs all allege that the church should have known that Lorch was abusing children.”
“wasn’t well-known as an athlete and never played college or pro basketball.”
“Recently, though, none of Riverside’s most famous players have weighed in on the Child Victims Act litigation.”
“Further, Semprevivo argued in his closing, J.M is “highly functional.”
“Whether it’s friends.”
““If the abuse happened as it’s going to be described by [J.M.] here,” argued Riverside counsel Philip Semprevivo in his opening statement, “yes, 100 percent, it’s Ernest Lorch’s fault, not 90 percent, not 80 percent.”
““He’s feeling that it’s gratifying to be heard, and it’s obviously a long time coming,” J.M.’s attorney, Lucas Franken, told Rolling Stone .”
“Lorch, who died in 2012 at the age of 79, was a powerful corporate attorney and executive whose Riverside Hawks basketball teams forged the template for the modern $40 billion youth sports industry.”
“Hope arose that the Daryl Powell settlement in January would lead to a quick resolution of the remaining lawsuits filed against the iconic Manhattan church.”