Ex-prep school students call for outside probe of sex abuse

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Ex-prep school students call for outside probe of sex abuse

Updated 1:32 am, Tuesday, January 5, 2016

BOSTON (AP) — Former students who say they were sexually abused at a prestigious Rhode Island boarding school are holding a news conference in Boston to call for an independent investigation into the abuse.

St. George's School in Middletown announced last month that it found 26 students were sexually abused by six school employees in the 1970s and 1980s. It acknowledged it did not report abusers to authorities at the time.

Lawyers for some of the victims say their own investigation found 16 additional victims. They say they also identified an additional staff member who abused children and seven ex-students who abused others.

They say they plan to release more information during Tuesday's news conference.


Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Ex-prep-school-students-call-for-outside-probe-of-6736961.php

[hack89]

1. Howard Dean's alma mater. nt

[MADem]

2. Prescott Bush and G H W Bush went there as well.

Dean graduated in the mid-sixties, before this scandal took hold.

[hack89]

3. I have spent many hours at the hockey rink at St Georges

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very familiar with the place. All the Deans went there - they donated a lot to the school.

This scandal is the talk of the town.

[MADem]

4. I can imagine. When you're paying close to sixty grand for your little Fauntleroy to get that

good boarding school education every year, you don't expect it to come with extra-curricular abuse.

[valerief]

5. Prescott Bush's and Tucker Carlson's prep school. nt