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BUFFALO, N.Y. — A lawyer for a 12-year-old girl said Friday that she was raped in a YMCA sauna by a day camp counselor, became pregnant and contracted a sexually transmitted disease.
The girl was assaulted twice by the 17-year-old camp counselor in July when she was 11, said attorney John Elmore. She gave birth to a son in March.
The family’s civil lawsuit in state Supreme Court claims the YMCA was negligent, especially because the second assault was witnessed and reported by a co-worker, who worked as a lifeguard. Elmore said a criminal case is pending against the counselor, whom he declined to identify.
