ANNAPOLIS (MD)
Associated Press
January 28, 2019
By Brian Witte
A private school in Maryland confirmed Monday that 10 adults in positions of authority engaged in sexual misconduct or inappropriate relationships with students from the 1970s through the early 1990s, and that the school failed to protect students from them.
The Key School said at least 16 former students were subjected to the abuse. Officials there released the report on the school’s website after an investigation that began in April, initiated by the school.
School officials said in a statement the report’s findings “left us in shock” and described them as “inexcusable.”
The school’s administration and board of trustees said they took steps after becoming aware of social media posts discussing inappropriate interactions between former faculty members and students in the 1970s.
“Reading this report is incredibly difficult,” said a letter sent from Key to the school’s community along with the 41-page report. “Actions, and inaction, described within are hard to process and have left us in shock and dismay. It is clear that adults at Key in the past abused, mistreated and failed to protect children entrusted to them.”
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