A teen is suing the Massapequa school district for allegedly failing to protect him from a janitor who he said forcibly kissed and groped him in a high school bathroom.

The male student, then 18 and a senior, said Michael Sodano, 48, was to buy earbuds from him and asked to meet in the bathroom near the teen’s physical education class on Feb. 12, according to the student’s complaint, filed in state Supreme Court of Nassau County in July.

Sodano allegedly locked the bathroom door with his janitorial keys and blocked it with his body, preventing the teen from leaving, according to the plaintiff's complaint.

Sodano "bear-hugged" the teen, pushed him against a wall and kissed his face, the student’s Manhattan-based attorney, Matthew B. Lefkowitz, wrote in the complaint.

The student’s laws

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