Fr. Geoffrey Chase
Started work at Portsmouth Abbey School in 1960. In 11/2016 the school reached out to alumni regarding past sex abuse, hiring a law firm to investigate. It was discovered that Chase was a dorm housemaster in the mid-1960s. He taught math and later computer science until 2002 when he was “sent away” to treatment and then long-term care, due to the past sexual abuse of a student. He admitted to abusing three others in the early 1970s-early 1980s. In 8/2017 he was in his late 80s and ill. He died 8/1/2023. Included in the 3/4/2026 RI Attorney General’s Report.
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