OAKLAND (CA)
KTVU 2 Fox
July 11, 2020
By Jesse Gary
San Jose – Decades after the first complaint, Presentation High School officials admitted Thursday their premier San Jose educational institution failed some of its students.
“I’m relieved. Because it just validated everything I’d been saying for three years,” said former student Kathryn Leehane.
She first penned an op-ed article about her alleged abuse at the school in the 1990s. That led to almost two dozen victims coming forward, who said administrators did not report instances of sexual abuse and assault stretching back more than three decades.
“It just goes to show deep and vast this cover-up was. To think that we started this well over a year ago, and their reaction at the time was to blast the messenger,” said childhood sexual abuse attorney Robert Allard.
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