Ex-St. George’s School chaplain now target of N.C. abuse probe

RHODE ISLAND
Boston Globe

By Bella English GLOBE STAFF FEBRUARY 10, 2016

In 1974, when the Rev. Howard H. White Jr. was quietly let go as assistant chaplain at St. George’s School in Middletown, R.I., after admitting to sexual misconduct with a male student, headmaster Tony Zane wrote White a letter telling him he “should not be in a boarding school” and “should seek psychiatric help.”

White went on to work at two other private schools, and neither reported complaints. But now North Carolina police are investigating a woman’s claim that, when she was a teenager, White sexually abused her at Grace Church in the Mountains in Waynesville, N.C., where he worked as a rector from 1984 to 2006. The investigation was first reported Saturday by the Providence Journal.

The woman, speaking publicly for the first time, told the Globe Tuesday that she was a sophomore in high school…