OAKLAND, Calif. - Once an internationally recognized and award-winning youth choir, Oakland-based Pacific Boychoir Academy, was hit with a lawsuit by former students.

The lawsuit, filed on Monday with the Superior Court of Alameda County, alleges the choir's founding director, Kevin Fox, groomed and sexually abused boys over the span of a decade.

The choir and day school, which shut down in June according to the California Department of Education, was founded by Fox more than 20 years ago, and according to the lawsuit, has had more than 1,200 boys pass through its programs.

It’s unclear whether the allegations are the cause of the closure.

Former students name themselves as victims of abuse

Salsburg-Frank is one of the seven people suing the organization, which had been churning out

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