CONCORD (NH)
Concord Monitor
July 14, 2018
By Alyssa Dandrea
St. Paul’s School has extended its new victim compensation and therapy programs to New Hampshire high schoolers who were sexually abused while participating in a prestigious summer program held annually on the Concord campus.
The prep school recently followed the lead of other private schools in providing financial assistance for mental health services to former students abused over decades by faculty and staff entrusted with their care. On the heels of the announcement to alumni, St. Paul’s leaders also emailed past students of the Advanced Studies Program to inform them of their eligibility to receive victim services, too.
St. Paul’s has long offered the month-long summer program to students between their junior and senior years. High-achieving high school students throughout the state have the chance to spend part of the summer living and studying on campus, where current St. Paul’s faculty and staff, as well as public high school and college professors, teach.
This summer, 240 students are taking courses taught by 25 teachers, five of whom work for the school.
As civil lawsuits against St. Paul’s mounted this spring, one former student of the Advanced Studies Program contacted a Manchester-based attorney to seek compensation for abuse he suffered in 1967. Attorney Peter Hutchins, known for his work representing hundreds of victims of clerical sexual abuse, said he met for the first time with the victim Monday, and filed a claim with two separate law firms who have worked for St. Paul’s, including Boston-based Casner & Edwards.
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