NEW YORK
The Daily Beat
Jesse Ellison
Since The New York Times’s report on sex abuse at the elite prep school, countless other alleged victims are telling their stories online. Jesse Ellison on the scandal’s new depth. Plus, read the school’s letter to alumni.
On Wednesday, The New York Times posted “Prep School Predators” to its website, a 9,000-word narrative tracing the “secret history of sexual abuse” at New York’s elite academy The Horace Mann School. The story—treatise, really—will be on the cover of the paper’s Sunday magazine. It almost instantly shot to the top of the Most E-mailed list, gathering nearly 800 comments in the first 48 hours alone.
Within hours, multiple Facebook groups—specifically intended for other victims and school alumni—had been created. One of them, a private group called “Processing Horace Mann,” ballooned to more than 1,400 members within 25 hours of its genesis. It now has more than 1,900.
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