PENNSYLVANIA
Valley News
By Michael Rubinkam
Associated Press
Friday, January 8, 2016
An Episcopal priest has been suspended from a Pennsylvania church after being accused this week of molesting three boys at an elite boarding school in Rhode Island more than 40 years ago.
More than two dozen students allege they were molested or raped at St. George’s School in Middletown, R.I., in the 1970s and ’80s. A lawyer for three former students named the Rev. Howard White on Tuesday as being among the six perpetrators the school identified after an internal investigation.
White has not been charged with a crime, and did not return a phone message left Thursday at his home by The Associated Press. He told The New York Times on Tuesday that the allegations were “news to me.” Asked by the newspaper if he had been fired because of the accusations, he said, “That isn’t really true.” He told The Boston Globe he had no comment.
A retired priest, White has been serving as a long-term, fill-in pastor at St. James Episcopal Church in Bedford, Penn., about 100 miles east of Pittsburgh.
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