It's he said/he said in the case of the Staten Island school psychologist accused of sexually abusing a local teen in his home office. The unidentified boy, now 19, says his sexual relationship with the therapist, Boris Mirochnik, 56, started in 2006 and lasted for two years. He told police they "engaged in oral and anal sex... on several occasions," the Advance reports. But Mirochnik insists that's a gross exaggeration; he claims they only "displayed their genitalia to each other," and that's as far as it went. And Mirochnik claims he only showed his after the teen exposed himself and coaxed the alleged analrapist to reciprocate. An airtight defense!
NY1 reports that Mirochnik was arrested Tuesday after the patient came forward to police; the teen says he waited so long to come forward because he was embarrassed. Up until his arrest, Mirochnik, a licensed clinical social worker with a Ph.D., was working at New Dorp High School as the school psychologist. He's charged with third-degree criminal sexual act and third-degree sexual abuse. The Advance notes that regardless of the alleged victim's age, under state law "a patient in a counselor-patient relationship is incapable of giving consent for sexual activity."
