RHODE ISLAND
Boston Globe
By Bella English GLOBE STAFF JANUARY 05, 2016
Two attorneys representing victims in the burgeoning sex abuse scandal at St. George’s School say that more than 40 people have contacted them with stories ranging from molestation to rape by staff and students at the Episcopalian prep school in Middletown, R.I., most of it in the 1970s and ’80s.
Some of those victims and the attorneys will hold a press conference Tuesday criticizing the school’s own investigation, detailed in a report last month, which identified 26 victims of sexual abuse at the prestigious school. The critics are also expected to call on the school to hire an independent agency or law firm to look into what happened to students on the hilltop campus overlooking the Atlantic Ocean.
“Their report was just damage control,” said Hawk Cramer, a school principal in Seattle, who said he was molested by a St. George’s faculty member when he was a student there from 1981 to 1985.
Attorneys Eric MacLeish and Carmen Durso say that while most of the people who have come forth were abused by St. George’s staffers, the attorneys have also have heard from two male and one female alumni who report being raped by fellow students. All three “can name alleged perpetrators, and two can name witnesses,” said MacLeish.
Rhode Island State Police detective commander Joseph Philbin said that “a very active, ongoing investigation” began several weeks ago, though he would not comment on specific cases. Rhode Island is one of the few states that have no statute of limitations for rape.
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