NEW JERSEY
The Star-Ledger
Published: Wednesday, January 18, 2012
By Star-Ledger Editorial Board
You might think that recent high-profile sex abuse scandals at Penn State University and elsewhere would serve as crisis management lessons for others.
Yet here we are, questioning another organization — this time, the Delbarton School in Morris Township — that appears unwilling to learn from those who failed.
News broke last week that Delbarton’s former headmaster, the Rev. Luke Travers, had contact with students at a school in Virginia while supposedly under investigation for sexual misconduct with Delbarton students many years ago. One former student told Delbarton officials that, as his father lay dying during his senior year, Travers consoled him by offering him liquor and kissing him on the neck and ears.
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