MISSOURI
Patch
By Gregg Palermo
Just over two weeks after reaching out to more than 1600 students who attended Chaminade College Preparatory School about allegations of sexual abuse at the school, the order which runs the Creve Coeur school announced Monday that it believed those allegations to be credible.
In a statement, Reverend Martin Solma, a Marianist Provincial, said he met recently with a former Chaminade student from the 1970s to discuss the allegations. That man also asked that the order contact students who attended the school at the same time as the two fomer teachers, both of whom are now deceased. Solma’s statement said 15 alums reported “experiencing or witnessing abusive behavior, sexual as well as other abusive behavors.”
One of those accused died in 1990, the other left the Marianist order in 1977 and has also died, according to the statement.
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