RHODE ISLAND
Providence Journal
By Karen Lee Ziner
Journal Staff Writer Posted Jan. 6, 2016
A Pennsylvania bishop moved swiftly to restrict the Rev. Dr. Howard White, former assistant chaplain at St. George’s School in Middletown, from his Pennsylvania church ministry following Tuesday’s revelation that White “is among the subjects of an investigation into widespread sexual abuse during the 1970s and 1980s.”
The Rev. Canon Audrey Cady Scanlan, Bishop of the Diocese of Central Pennsylvania, wrote a letter to members of her Episcopal diocese Wednesday that explains her decision. White is now a retired Episcopal priest serving as a long-term supply priest at St. James Episcopal Church in Bedford, PA.
White was named in a document released by three St. George’s alumnae at a Boston press conference Tuesday. The women, Anne Scott (Class of ’80), Katie Wales Lovkay (’80) and Joan Reynolds (’79), were sexually abused by the school’s former athletic trainer the 1970s.
Their document rebuts an investigative report that the school issued in December, and calls for an independent investigation and accuses the school of covering up the abuse for decades. The response document identifies by name several former St. George’s staff — White among them — whom the school’s report references as perpetrators, by number only.
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