Ex-st. George’s Assistant Chaplain Pleads Guilty to Abusing Student in 1970s

By Jacqueline Tempera
Providence Journal
May 15, 2017

http://www.providencejournal.com/news/20170515/ex-st-georges-assistant-chaplain-pleads-guilty-to-abusing-student-in-1970s

Former priest Howard W. White pleaded guilty to five counts of assault and battery for his abuse of a student with whom he twice traveled from St. George’s School in Middletown, R.I., to Boston in the 1970s.

White, 75, is one of six named perpetrators in the sex-abuse scandal that has consumed the Episcopal prep school since 2015. He was the subject of a Journal investigation that showed White has left a trail of sex-abuse allegations spanning more than four decades.

The Boston abuse happened when White befriended a male student, who 15 or 16 years old during his time at St. George’s School, according to Jake Wark, a spokesman for Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley. The victim, who chooses to remain unnamed, says White lured him with fancy dinners, movies, and his Porsche.

White raped the boy in Boston hotel rooms, prosecutors said. When the boy confronted White, then an assistant chaplain, asking him to stop, White said: “I’ll tell you what. It’s not going to stop. If you try to stop, I’ll make your life difficult,” according to prosecutors.