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By Michelle R. Smith
An independent investigator looking at sexual abuse at the elite Rhode Island boarding school St. George’s issued a report Thursday documenting widespread abuse there in the 1970s and 1980s.
Among the findings is that at least one in five girls who attended the school in the 1970s was abused by athletic trainer Al Gibbs. It also found 10 school employees sexually abused at least 51 students in the 1970s and 1980s, and at least 10 students were abused by fellow students.
“In the 1970s and 1980s, St. George’s School betrayed the trust of the many St. George’s students who became the targets of sexual abuse when they came to the school, and likewise betrayed the trust of parents who sent those students to St. George’s with the expectation that it would be a safe place for them to live and learn,” according to the report by Boston lawyer Martin Murphy.
Murphy was hired in January by the school and the survivors’ group SGS for Healing.
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