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TexasTowelie

(116,798 posts)
Sun Aug 19, 2018, 05:04 AM Aug 2018

Boarding school: 7 former staffers sexually abused students

SALISBURY, Conn. (AP) — Seven former faculty members sexually abused students for decades while school administrators failed to take action, an independent investigation released by an elite Connecticut boarding school found.

The report released late Friday by the Hotchkiss School near the New York state line found that 16 students were subjected to unwanted contact from male faculty, including intercourse and unnecessary gynecological exams. It also documented instances when administrators failed to intervene when made aware of the sexual misconduct, which happened between 1969 and 1992.

It's the latest prestigious boarding school in New England to deal with allegations of pervasive sexual misconduct in recent years, including St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, and St. George's School in Middletown, Rhode Island.

Hotchkiss officials said in a letter with the report that they have notified law enforcement and other authorities about the report's findings, including any subsequent employers of the former staffers. They've also stripped titles and recognitions bestowed on staffers and removed the names of former school heads who failed to act from any prizes, scholarships, endowments and spaces on campus, including their portraits.

Read more: https://www.caledonianrecord.com/news/state/boarding-school-former-staffers-sexually-abused-students/article_4340b956-ded6-5d55-8909-022aa4ff0937.html

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Boarding school: 7 former staffers sexually abused students (Original Post) TexasTowelie Aug 2018 OP
I guess this isn't all that surprising. Several years ago I got a notice from my boarding school Rhiannon12866 Aug 2018 #1
Miss Hall's in Pittsfield? secondwind Aug 2018 #2
Northfield School in East Northfield, MA Rhiannon12866 Aug 2018 #3

Rhiannon12866

(222,211 posts)
1. I guess this isn't all that surprising. Several years ago I got a notice from my boarding school
Sun Aug 19, 2018, 05:13 AM
Aug 2018

That similar things had taken place, though, amazingly, it was before my time. I went to a girls' school in Massachusetts and there were very few male faculty members even when I was there, I can almost count them on one hand!

Rhiannon12866

(222,211 posts)
3. Northfield School in East Northfield, MA
Sun Aug 19, 2018, 07:20 AM
Aug 2018

It's now Northfield Mount Hermon, they combined with their "brother" school and are now coed. But Northfield was there first, since 1879.

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