A Queens woman accuses a former music teacher of sexually harassing and assaulting her for years — while the brazen instructor is suing the city for “denying her 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 payroll – collecting $93,200 last fiscal year – following accusations he which he allegedly had a sexual relationship with a former student.
The city Department of Education never released details, and the special commissioner in charge of city school investigations withheld his report.
But in a shocking lawsuit filed in Manhattan Supreme Court last year, “Jane Doe,” now 24, claims years of grooming, harassment and sexual assault by Biski, from the age of 14.
“Biski used force, fear, fraud, intimidation, threats and undue influence to forcibly assault and sexually abuse” the young woman, the lawsuit claims.
Biski, a father of two from Queens who started at Gateway in 2012, had a “reputation” for inappropriate behavior with female students, the suit charges. He allegedly invited girls to his secluded fourth-floor office and started a board game club, which sometimes met at his home.
During these play sessions, Biski learned that his alleged victim “had a strained relationship with his parents,” the suit states.
Biski’s care and handling of the girl became physical during her senior year, according to the filing.
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.
On several occasions, he “forcefully” placed his hand on her crotch, making her feel his erection through his pants, according to the lawsuit.
Biski asked the girl to save her phone number under a different name “so as not to arouse suspicion” and sent her an email from his private account, according to the complaint.
He allegedly told her not to talk about himself to her therapist and not to confide in other teachers.
“All this was done by Biski with the aim of cultivating a personal, intimate and dependent relationship with [her] — to groom oneself [her] for sexual abuse,” the suit states.
After she graduated in 2016, Biski “harassed” her to come to his house while his wife and children were not home, and asked her for nude photos and sexual favors, according to the complaint . If she made excuses, he became “angry” and felt guilty, she claims.
At 21, she met Biski in Manhattan. He forced her to buy condoms and book a hotel room for them so his wife wouldn’t find out, according to the complaint. There, he allegedly made her perform fellatio and tried to force her to have sex.
She eventually cut off all communication with Biski while she was studying abroad.
The abuse follows a pattern against minors at the Queens school, his lawsuit charges. Teachers and staff allegedly knew about her and Biski’s relationship and called her his “girlfriend.”
She accuses the school and DOE of negligence in ignoring suspicions and “red flags” about child sexual abuse.
Biski’s dismissal 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 class, The Post reported. Hall surrendered his state teaching license.
Yet in June, Biski unapologetically sued the DOE and represented himself, claiming the department was unreasonable, irrational and acting “in bad faith” for denying him legal representation in the ongoing lawsuit. ex-student.
Biski’s wife filed for divorce in 2022, records show.
The DOE said Biski “was no longer employed” at public schools, but declined to explain whether the teacher was fired or resigned.
He could not be reached for comment.
