A Queens woman is accusing a former music teacher of sexually harassing and assaulting her for years — while the brazen instructor is suing the city for “denying him legal representation,” The Post has learned.
Scott Biski, 50, was removed from Jamaica Gateway to the Sciences High School in 2022, but remained on the city payroll — collecting $93,200 last fiscal year — following accusations that he had a sexual relationship with a former student.
The city Department of Education never released details, and the Special Commissioner of Investigation for city schools has withheld its report.
But in a shocking lawsuit filed in Manhattan Supreme Court last year, the now 24-year-old “Jane Doe” claims years of grooming, harassment and sexual assault by Biski, starting when she was 14.
“Biski used force, fear, fraud, intimidation, threats, and undue influence to forcibly sexually assault and sexually abuse” the young woman, the suit contends.
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 game sessions, Biski learned his alleged victim “had a strained relationship with her parents,” the suit says.
Biski’s grooming and manipulation of the girl turned physical during her senior year, according to the filing.
In one instance, she was in Biski’s office printing material 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 multiple occasions, he “forcefully” placed her hand on his crotch, making her feel his erection through his pants, the lawsuit alleges.
Biski told the girl to save his phone number under a different name “so as to not arouse suspicion” and emailed her from his private account, the suit says.
He allegedly told her not to talk to her therapist about him, and not to confide in other teachers.
“All of this was done by Biski in an effort to cultivate a personal, intimate, and dependent relationship with [her] — in order to groom [her] for sexual abuse,” the suit says.
After she graduated in 2016, Biski would “pester” her into coming over when his wife and children weren’t home, and asked for nude photos and sexual favors, according to the suit. If she made excuses, he became “irate” and guilt trip her, she claims.
At age 21, she met Biski in Manhattan. He forced her to buy condoms and book them a hotel room so that his wife wouldn’t find out, the suit says. There, he allegedly made her perform oral sex and tried to force her to have intercourse.
She finally cut off communication with Biski while studying abroad.
The abuse follows a pattern against minors at the Queens school, her lawsuit charges. Teachers and staff were allegedly aware of Biski’s relationship with her and referred to her as his “girlfriend.”
She accuses the school and 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 surrendered his state teaching license.
Yet in June, the unabashed Biski sued the DOE and represents himself, claiming the department was unreasonable, irrational and acting “in bad faith” for denying him legal representation in the ex-student’s ongoing suit.
Biski’s wife filed for divorce in 2022, records show.
The DOE said Biski is “no longer employed” with the public schools, but refused to explain whether the teacher was fired or quit.
He could not be reached for comment.