RHODE ISLAND
Patch
By MARK SCHIELDROP (Patch Staff) – April 6, 2016
MIDDLETOWN, RI—Alumni of the elite St. George’s School in Middletown were notified Wednesday that Bob Weston, associate head for external affairs, was placed on leave after the school received “secondhand allegations” about his “boundaries with students.”
Weston was placed on leave in January, the school said. It is not clear why alumni were notified about three months later in April.
A school spokesperson was not immediately available for comment.
St. George’s has been mired by a sex abuse scandal since December scandal after dozens of former students came forward with tales of being raped and sexually assaulted by former athletic trainer Al Gibbs in the 1970s, former chaplain Rev. Howard W. White Jr., in the 1970s and 80s along with about five other former employees of the school.
A total of about 40 victims have since come forward reporting abuse dating back to the 1960s.
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