RHODE ISLAND
WPRI
[with video]
Nancy Krause with The Associated Press
Published: January 7, 2016
BEDFORD, Penn. (WPRI/AP) –St. George’s School in Middletown announced Thursday it will hire a third party investigator to look into claims of sexual abuse.
The bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Central Pennsylvania announced this week she has suspended The Rev. Dr. Howard White in the investigation into widespread allegations of sexual abuse at the school.
White, who has not been charged with a crime, is a retired priest who has been serving as a long-term fill-in pastor at St. James Episcopal Church in Bedford, about 100 miles east of Pittsburgh.
In a statement to Eyewitness News, St. George’s School and the Alumni/Victim’s Group “SGS for Healing” said:
As a result of an agreement reached this afternoon between St. George’s School and the Alumni/Victim Group “SGS for Healing,” the Board of Trustees has announced that it will retain a third party independent investigator to be agreed upon by the parties in order to oversee a comprehensive investigation of sexual abuse at St. George’s School.
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