April 19, 2006

Prep school concedes to abuse charge

MARYLAND
The Washington Times

April 19, 2006

The Maryland Jesuit Province has found that a 2003 accusation of sexual abuse against a priest who taught at Georgetown Preparatory School is "substantially true," according to letters sent to parents of students and alumni of the private school in North Bethesda.
The Rev. Garrett "Gary" Orr, who was investigated but not charged by Montgomery County police, is on a leave of absence and has been barred from assignments at schools and parishes, the Very Rev. Timothy Brown, the Jesuit provincial head, said in a letter to the Rev. William L. George, president of Georgetown Prep.
"It is with a heavy heart and a sense of great sorrow," began Father George's two-page letter, dated April 10, to parents of 450 boys at the country's only Jesuit boarding school.

Posted by kshaw at April 19, 2006 01:28 AM