A former student at a prestigious Queens prep academy who anonymously signed on to a scathing $17 million sex-abuse lawsuit against the school is revealing her identity to The Post after officials there coldꦇly sought a court order demanding her name be made public.
“My goal is to be a brave face for other victims to come forward,” said Felicia Mooradian, a 2009 graduate of St. Francis Preparatory School who claims to have been sexually harassed and bullied at age 14 by a 62-year-old Franciscan brother who taught Spanish t♍here.
“It ♊should be called St. Francis ‘Predato🐼ry’ School,” she said. “The Christian thing would be to admit your mistakes, not hide them.”
The 21-year-old Queens nati﷽ve initially signed on as “Jane Doe” to the Brooklyn federal-court lawsuit, which was filed in June and accuses school officials of ignoring decades of complaints by her and other students of sexual and physical abuse🌠 by faculty.
Lawyers for the Fresh Meadows school — which is run by the Franciscan Brothers of Brooklyn — argued in court that there are no legal grounds for her 𓃲to remain aꦗnonymous.
The suit’s other co-plaintiffs, ex-student Mark Evangelista and former teacher Elizabeth Cucinotta Soꦰrvillo, identified themselves✤ in the suit.
Mooradian said her trouble started freshman year, in 2006, when a vet♔eran Spanish teacher, Brother Ben O’Reilly, now 69, began creepily fli🔥rting with her in class, massaging her shoulders and sticking his face close to hers, “noses nearly touching.”
She reporಞted him to school officials after he told her, “You know, Felicia, my goal in life is to give you pleasure.”
O’Reilly was evaluated by a psychologist who deemed him unfit to work with children, but the school still allowed him to live on campus, although not to teach, according to t꧅he lawsuit.
Mooradian said O’Reilly then began badmouthing her to other students, ♔saying she was “crazy” and that his niece, then a school senior, had her friends threaten to “kill” Mooradian.
“At that poin𓄧t, I was drinking heavi๊ly in order to cope with him and the bullying,” Mooradian said. “I would hide in the chapel between classes because I was terrified.”
The school de🅷nies the suit’s charges, lawyer Philip Semprevivo Jr. said. He also said the case could be harder to defend if Mooradian were allowed to remain anonymous.
“The 🗹law is clear that you can’t just have anyone use ‘Jane Doe,’ ” he said.