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Article Details Widespread Claims of Sex Abuse at Private Schools

By KATHARINE Q. SEELYEMAY 8, 2016

BOSTON — Since 1991, more than 200 students from at least 67 private schools across New England have accused teachers, administrators or other staff members of sexually abusing or harassing them, according to a report on Sunday by The Boston Globe’s Spotlight investigation team.

These and other allegations, going back decades, include claims of rape, fondling, molestation and oral sex by trusted adults in positions of authority, including, in one case, an admissions officer.

At least 90 lawsuits or other legal claims have been filed on behalf of the people who have made the accusations, and at least 37 school employees have been fired or forced to resign because of the allegations, the newspaper said. In addition, nearly two dozen employees eventually pleaded guilty or were convicted on criminal charges of abusing children or related crimes.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/09/us/article-details-widespread-claims-of-sex-abuse-at-private-schools.html?_r=0 

Pall of sex abuse investigations hangs over alumni weekends

 

–Steven Senne / Associated Press

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The Associated Press

May 6, 2016

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Between cocktails, campus tours and squash games, alumni visiting St. George’s School for their annual reunion weekend will find something different this year: discussions about what has unfolded at the elite boarding school since December, when leaders acknowledged dozens of students were sexually abused in the past.
St. George’s is the most extreme example of abuse scandals that have bubbled up recently at New England boarding schools, which are handling reunion weekends this month with different approaches.

http://www.boston.com/news/education/2016/05/06/pall-sex-abuse-investigations-hangs-alumni-weekends