UNITED KINGDOM
The Independent
PAUL GALLAGHER SUNDAY 12 MAY 2013
The police investigation into allegations of historical sexual abuse at the Yehudi Menuhin School of music has widened, with another former pupil speaking out about how she suffered seven years of lewd and degrading behaviour at the hands of her teachers.
Sacha Barlow, who is now assistant principal violist at the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra in the US, studied at the Surrey-based institution until 1989. She says she “endured” her time there and it left emotional scars. Speaking from America, Ms Barlow said: “There was a lot of inappropriate behaviour that a number of teachers engaged in. A couple of them should not have been allowed anywhere near children.”
Last week, the cellist Michal Kaznowski revealed that his former cello tutor Maurice Gendron controlled students through sadistic teaching methods over a 10-year period to 1977.
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