$1 Million Child Sexual Abuse Settlement against Middletown Township Board of Education, Thompson Middle School, and its teacher Sherry Farwell Diodato
Partner John Baldante achieved a $1 Million settlement for his client, Blake Frank, against the Middletown Township Board of Education, Thompson Middle School, and its teacher Sherry Farwell Diodato. The client was pleased to obtain accountability after many years, and grateful that his claims were validated. It was important to Mr. Frank to hold his abuser, his former eighth-grade English teacher, accountable. John was able to do so by illuminating to the judge the gravity of the sexual abuse that had occurred and highlighting the cumulative testimony and evidence of family members, friends, and implicating correspondence authored by the perpetrator-teacher herself.