RHODE ISLAND
Rhode Island Public Radio
By JOHN BENDER
A former Massachusetts Attorney General has been hired to spearhead a new investigation into allegations of sexual abuse at St. George’s prep school in Middletown, Rhode Island. Scott Harshbarger of Boston will take up the inquiry into the school.
A group of alumni has accused former teachers and faculty at the school of sexual misconduct in the 1970s and 80s.
That same group deemed an initial investigation not thorough or impartial enough, because the investigator worked for a law firm which also represented the school.
The alumni pressed the school for a new inquiry into the allegations with an investigator approved jointly by the group and the St. George’s board of trustees.
Harshbarger is a prominent Boston lawyer, and served as Attorney General of Massachusetts from 1991 to 1999.
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