Instructors at an Irish dance school in New Jersey sexually abused three minors, according to three lawsuits filed this week in Superior Court under the new statute of limitations law.

The lawsuits were filed in Bergen County Wednesday against numerous organizations involved in the international Irish dance community, including an unidentified school of Irish dance that has a business address in New Jersey. Two of its instructors allegedly sexually abused students, according to the lawsuit.

The plaintiffs alleging they were abused in the lawsuits are not identified. Two of them are from New York and the third is from Massachusetts, according to the lawsuits.

Each lawsuit identifies cites a New Jersey resident and an employee of the local dance school, who allegedly sexually abused minor students. He is identified in the lawsuit by his initials only. Samuel Meirowitz, the attorney for the plaintiffs, would not confirm if it was the same individual in all three cases.

While at a dance competition in Connecticut in 2006, the instructor allegedly invited an unidentified minor into his hotel room “ordered him to perform oral sex,” according to one of the lawsuits. When the minor refused, a “struggle ensued” and the instructor allegedly ejaculated on the minor, according to the lawsuit.

In an incident described in a second lawsuit, the instructor allegedly tried to kiss an unidentified minor while at an Irish dance competition in Orlando. When the minor refused, the instructor allegedly continued to try and kiss the minor, according to the lawsuit, before he “proceeded to stick his tongue” in the minor’s ear.

The minor was eventually able to break free, according to the lawsuit.

The third lawsuit identified an instructor as having allegedly sexually abused a minor on multiple occasions in his Bergen County home in the 1980s. In the same lawsuit, the plaintiff alleges that a former dance instructor, who is now dead, sexually abused him on multiple occasions at locations around the world, including at a private dance studio in a New Jersey residence.

Like many of the lawsuits filed over the last week under a new New Jersey law that opened a two-year window for people to sue their alleged abusers and the institutions who employed them, the three lawsuits allege that a number of organizations should have been aware of the alleged misconduct and acted on it.

The lawsuits name the unidentified New Jersey dance school, the Coimisiún Le Rincí Gaelacha (CLRG), the world’s largest governing body for competitive Irish step dancing, and the Irish Dance Teachers Association of North America. The dance school in New Jersey is described as having a “business address in New Jersey” and offering dance instructions in New Jersey, New York, Maryland and Connecticut .

The lawsuits put responsibility on the organizations for accrediting the instructors and not providing adequate supervision for the dancers within their organization.

In one lawsuit, it says the organizations had been made aware the instructor was soliciting sex from minors on a social media network and failed to “properly investigate or even turn over this information to authorities.” Even with this information, the lawsuit claims the instructor was continually accredited to instruct dance classes and participate in national and international competitions.

“Defendants knew or should known of (the instructor’s) history of sexually abusing minors,” all three lawsuits say.

The CLRG and the Irish Dance Teachers Association of North America did not immediately return a request for comment.

Earlier this week, Meirowitz’s firm filed lawsuits in Bergen County alleging nearly identical claims against organizations within the Irish dance community, but the lawsuits were quickly withdrawn, according to online court records. It is unclear why. Meirowitz declined to comment on why he voluntarily dismissed the original complaints and then re-filed new lawsuits.

Joe Atmonavage may be reached at jatmonavage@njadvancemedia.com. Follow on Twitter @monavage.

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