RHODE ISLAND
International Business Times
BY JULIA GLUM @SUPERJULIA ON 01/05/16
A group of former prep school students from St. George’s School in Middletown, Rhode Island, were preparing to hold a news conference Tuesday to demand an independent investigation into a sex abuse scandal they say took place — and was covered up — in the 70s and 80s. The alleged victims and their attorneys planned to reveal their response Tuesday to a recent report released by the Episcopal boarding school confirming 26 such cases.
“We want the facts and the responsibility,” attorney Eric MacLeish told the Providence Journal. “The board report was a sanitized version of the truth.”
The 11-page report, which came out Dec. 23, found three former staff members “engaged in sexual misconduct with regard to multiple students,” the New York Times reported. Three other staffers abused single students, and some students abused other students.
Four of the six implicated employees were fired after the allegations surfaced years ago, but the institution “failed on several occasions to fulfill its legal reporting requirements,” according to the report. Some staffers went on to work at schools elsewhere in the country.
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