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Civil Litigation

Sep. 14, 2018

Former student sues over use of his photo in documentary about sexual abuse

A former student of a school featured in a 2015 documentary about sexual abuse sued the film’s producers Thursday, claiming its unlicensed use of his yearbook photo has led people to believe he’s a sexual abuser himself.

A former student of a school featured in a 2015 documentary about sexual abuse sued the film's producers Thursday, claiming its unlicensed use of his yearbook photo has led people to believe he's a sexual abuser himself.

The documentary, "What Haunts Us," details a teacher's sexual abuse of pupils at the Porter-Gaud School in Charleston, South Carolina in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Plaintiff Adam Bonsignori, who attended the sc...

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