WORCESTER – A Worcester woman who alleges that a former Worcester Public Schools official and school committee member sexually abused her when she was under 12 years old, appears in a video released on Thursday, Oct. 16, asking Worcester voters to reject two candidates for municipal office who she says protected the man who allegedly abused her.
In 2023, Heather Prunier, of Worcester, publicly acknowledged for the first time that she was the girl who reported being sexually abused by former Worcester School Committee member and school principal John Monfredo in 1997.
Prunier says she endured sexual abuse over a three-year period, between 1991 and 1994, when she was between nine and 12 years old. In 1997, she reported the crimes to police and identified the abuser as her softball coach, John Monfredo, then the principal of Belmont Street Community School, a grammar school in Worcester…