Exclusive | Elite NYC private school volleyball coach groomed and raped student for years, horrific lawsuit charges

A volleyball coach at the Ethical Culture Fieldston School allegedly groomed and repeatedly raped one of his players — and told her she was “just as much a villain as he was” during the years-long abuse, according to a shocking new lawsuit.The abuse allegedly occurred on the campus of the elite Bronx private school, after volleyball practices, at the movies and at the girl’s home, and began when she was 17, she claimed.Now 36, the victim, identified in her Bronx Supreme Court filing only as Jane Doe, said she has suffered decades of depression, anxiety and post traumatic stress syndrome following the two years of abuse by former girls varsity coach Collin Henry.Once a high-performing student, the Westchester resident was forced to forego medical school because of the fallout, she contended in the suit, which was filed Thursday against Fieldston, Henry and former JV coach Lynford Foreman.A former Jamaican national volleyball team player in the 1990s, Henry, 55, was lauded for building a championship-winning program but “regularly crossed boundaries and made sexually inappropriate comments or acted flirtatiously with his players,” the victim said in court papers.The coach allegedly sent the girl sexual messages beginning in 2004, drove her to off-season practices for a club team in Queens and spent the long car rides “deliberately [eroding] the boundaries between coach and student with his sexual ‘jokes’ and personal stories,” according to the suit.Once she turned 17 in the spring of 2005, the married father allegedly told her she was “old enough” for a sexual relationship, and said he wouldn’t go to jail for it but could lose his job, according to the suit.After a summer of grooming the victim to “foster emotional dependence, encourage obedience, and establish his expectation for sexual contact” with her, the abuse became physical in the fall when Henry kissed her after a practice — then made her the team captain, she said in the lega...