Alleged victim of CT art teacher who sexually exploited students in ’80s suing school board

A man is seeking a jury trial after filing a lawsuit against the Wolcott Board of Education, alleging he was one of more than a dozen boys sexually exploited in the 1980s by former elementary school art teacher Roger Niland.

The lawsuit, filed last February in Waterbury Superior Court by Middlebury-based attorney Matthias Peters-Kroll, contends that the town’s Board of Education was negligent in allowing Niland to take nude photographs of numerous male students both in the art classroom...