RHODE ISLAND
The New York Times
By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
JAN. 11, 2016
Scott Harshbarger, a former attorney general of Massachusetts and former president of Common Cause, was named on Monday as the independent investigator into sexual abuse accusations spanning decades at St. George’s School, an elite prep school in Middletown, R.I.
Mr. Harshbarger, a lawyer practicing in Boston, was retained by the school with the consent of a group of alumni who brought the accusations and had complained that an earlier investigation by the school had not been truly independent. They also agreed that any victim of abuse by teachers, staff members or students could receive treatment through Day One of Rhode Island, which treats victims of trauma, at the school’s expense.
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