Ex-chaplain at St. George’s School pleads guilty to 1973 molestation

By Cristela Guerra
BostGlobe
May 15, 2017

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/05/14/former-episcopal-priest-and-former-george-chaplain-pleads-guilty-assault-battery-charges/ji45ivGAxPnRqOMbl07cSL/story.html

Howard White Jr. was an associate chaplain at St. George’s School in Middletown, R.I.

A former associate chaplain at St. George’s School in Rhode Island has pleaded guilty to molesting a student during trips to Boston in 1973. Howard White Jr., who was also accused of sexual abuse in three other states and stripped of his priesthood by the Episcopal Church, received an 18-month sentence, according to Jake Wark, spokesman for the Suffolk County district attorney’s office.

Officials in the Suffolk District Attorney’s Office said last year that the charges against White grew out of a Rhode Island State Police investigation into allegations of sexual assault and sexual misconduct by former faculty and students at the elite prep school in Middletown, R.I., going back to 1970. He was arraigned in Suffolk Superior Court last December.

“The parties came to an agreement on a plea and sentence that we thought was fair,” said David Duncan, White’s defense attorney.

Carmen Durso, who represented the victim, said his client was satisfied with the outcome.