UNITED STATES
The Guardian (UK)
Joanna Walters
@Joannawalters13
Saturday 6 August 2016
Anne Scott has negotiated with Burmese generals, government ministers, Israeli military chiefs and fighters in the Gaza Strip, but this was her toughest battle yet.
“For about four months I was having full-on 2am panic attacks,” she said.
She was referring to a time earlier this year when she was negotiating with her illustrious New England boarding school into agreeing to a settlement with up to 30 men and women, herself included, who were subjected to rape and sexual abuse by staff as teens.
On Wednesday, the elite St George’s School in Middletown, Rhode Island, which was founded in 1896 and has taught Astors, Vanderbilts and a Bush, among others, issued a statement in conjunction with Scott and her lawyers in which the school agreed to pay compensation to victims.
It had previously apologized and pledged to learn from “what happened”, after Scott broke a 25-year silence to go public last December.
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