Alleged Victim of Sexual Abuse Steps Forward

By Karen Lee Ziner
Journal Staff Writer
January 19, 2017

http://www.providencejournal.com/news/20170118/alleged-victim-of-sexual-abuse-steps-forward

Meg Yarbrough will join the Women's March on Washington on Saturday as a personal statement against sexual abuse; and against a president whom she opposes.

The 48-year-old registered nurse is also shedding anonymity in her own allegations against former Episcopal priest Howard W. "Howdy" White Jr. Previously quoted anonymously in The Providence Journal, Yarbrough says she wants to use her name because "hiding implies I did something wrong, which I certainly did not."

White, ex-assistant chaplain at St. George's School in Middletown, was one of six named alleged perpetrators in a scandal involving widespread sexual abuse dating to the 1970s, that roiled the elite Episcopal school last year. He was charged last month with sexually assaulting a St. George's student in Boston in 1973.

"I'm tired of being quiet," Yarbrough said in a phone interview Wednesday from her suburban Washington home. While she cannot change the past, "what I can control is how my life is now. And this is my first step."