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A New York teacher was accused of molesting and sexually assaulting students for years, then sued the DOE for not funding his defense

A Queens woman is accusing a former music teacher of sexually harassing and assaulting her for years — while the brazen teacher is suing the city for “denying him legal representation,” The Post has learned.

Scott Biski, 50, was fired from Jamaica Gateway to the Sciences High School in 2022 but remained on the city's payroll — collecting $93,200 in the last fiscal year — after he was accused of having a sexual relationship with a former student to have.

The city's Education Department has never released details, and the special commissioner of investigations for city schools has withheld his report.

But in a shocking lawsuit filed last year in Manhattan Supreme Court, “Jane Doe,” now 24, claims she was groomed, molested and sexually abused by Biski for years since she was 14.


Biski filed a lawsuit against the Department of Energy, claiming the department was unreasonable and irrational in failing to provide him with legal representation against a former student's law school case. biskisan/Facebook

“Biski used force, fear, fraud, intimidation, threats and undue influence to forcibly sexually assault and abuse the young woman,” the lawsuit states.

Biski, a father of two from Queens who started at Gateway in 2012, was known for inappropriate behavior toward female students, the lawsuit says. He allegedly invited girls to his secluded fourth-floor office and founded a board game club that sometimes met at his home.

During these gaming sessions, Biski learned that his alleged victim “had a strained relationship with her parents,” the lawsuit says.

According to the files, Biski's interactions with the girl became physically impaired during her senior year.

In one case, she was in Biski's office printing materials for a science project when he allegedly locked the door, took the girl's face in his hands and kissed her on the lips.

Several times he “forcibly” placed her hand on his crotch so that she could feel his erection through his pants, the lawsuit says.

Biski asked the girl to save his phone number under a different name “so as not to arouse suspicion” and sent her an email from his personal account, the lawsuit says.

He allegedly told her not to talk about him to her therapist and not to confide in other teachers.

“All of this was done by Biski to maintain a personal, intimate and dependent relationship [her] – to take care of yourself [her] for sexual abuse,” the lawsuit says.

After she graduated in 2016, Biski “bugged” her to come over when his wife and children weren't home and asked her for nude photos and sexual favors, the lawsuit says. When she apologized, he would become “angry” and make her feel guilty, she claims.

At the age of 21, she met Biski in Manhattan. He forced them to buy condoms and book them a hotel room so that his wife wouldn't find out, the lawsuit says. There he is said to have forced her to perform oral sex and tried to force her to have sexual intercourse.

While studying abroad, she eventually stopped communicating with Biski.

The abuse follows a pattern against minors at the Queens school, her lawsuit says. Teachers and staff were allegedly aware of Biski's relationship with her and referred to her as his “girlfriend”.

She accuses the school and the DOE of negligence by ignoring suspicions and “red flags” of child sexual abuse.

Biski's removal from Gateway came just weeks after another teacher at the school, Shannon Hall, was arrested for allegedly sending sexually explicit and threatening messages to a student and grabbing her breast in a classroom, The Post reported. Hall gave up his state teaching license.

But in June, the brash Biski sued the Department of Energy and defended himself, claiming the department had acted unreasonably, irrationally and in “bad faith” by denying him legal representation in the former student's ongoing case.

Biski's wife filed for divorce in 2022, according to the documents.

The Energy Department said Biski is “no longer employed” by the public schools, but declined to say whether the teacher was fired or terminated.

He could not be reached for comment.