Scott Harshbarger to Investigate Abuse Cases at St. George’s School

By Katharine Q. Seelye
New York Times
January 11, 2016

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/12/us/scott-harshbarger-to-investigate-abuse-cases-at-st-georges-school.html

Scott Harshbarger, a former attorney general of Massachusetts, in 2009. Mr. Harshbarger will look into accusations of sexual abuse at the St. George’s School in Middletown, R.I. Photo by Steven Senne

Scott Harshbarger, a former attorney general of Massachusetts and former president of Common Cause, was named on Monday as the independent investigator into sexual abuse accusations spanning decades at St. George’s School, an elite prep school in Middletown, R.I.

Mr. Harshbarger, a lawyer practicing in Boston, was retained by the school with the consent of a group of alumni who brought the accusations and had complained that an earlier investigation by the school had not been truly independent. They also agreed that any victim of abuse by teachers, staff members or students could receive treatment through Day One of Rhode Island, which treats victims of trauma, at the school’s expense.