Former Stoneham Special Needs Worker Facing Pornography Charges, Tangled in Civil Suit Against the State

By Susan Petroni

The former director of special needs for Stoneham Public Schools, accused of posing as a 14-year-old boy online to lure teenage girls into webcam strip shows is also at the center of a scathing civil lawsuit that slams state officials for delivering an abused foster child into his Framingham home,reported the Boston Herald in an exclusive report.

The Boston daily newspaper interview the mom of a current high school senior, who was a foster child in the home of Steven Orloff, 48, 189 Potter Rd. of Framingham and his now-estranged wife.

The mother, who the daily newspaper did not identify, is part of a civil suit against the state's department of children and families.

The civil suit, filed in a Suffolk County court, accuses the state of failing to properly vet Orloff, and failing to perform mandated checks of the home and keep the teen out of harm’s way.

The lawsuit, reported the Boston Herald, claims the teenage girl “never should have been” in Steven Orloff’s Framingham home where she was secretly filmed inside his bathroom while he was her foster father. An investigator with the state Department of Children and Families also supported allegations that Orloff sexually abused the girl, according to a letter the agency sent the girl’s mother earlier this year and is part of the civil suit, report the Boston Herald.

Click here to read the exclusive interview with the birth mother of the foster teen and hear her speak in her own words in a Boston Herald video on how her foster child was made a victim again by the state.

On Friday, Orloff, was charged with producing and possessing child pornography in federal court in Boston. 

He had a detention hearing set for yesterday, Dec. 17.

A year ago, Orloff, 189 Potter Rd. of Framingham, was arraigned and charged in Framingham District Court on charges of distribution of obscene matter and pose or exhibit a child in the nude.