MAINE
Bangor Daily News
By Judy Harrison, BDN Staff
Posted Aug. 01, 2012
AUGUSTA, Maine — Former Husson University President Bill Beardsley learned in 2005 that the Rev. Bob Carlson “was not who he appeared to be,” according to documents released Wednesday into allegations that Carlson sexually abused minors.
In addition, students at the school had told Beardsley about abuse of students there, the Maine State Police report said.
Carlson, who was the chaplain at Husson from 1995 until 2006, jumped to his death in the early morning hours of Nov. 13 from the Penobscot Narrows Bridge. A few days after his death, the Maine State Police announced they had been investigating an allegation that Carlson had sexually abused an 11-year-old boy in the 1970s.
In the state police report — in which much of the information is redacted — Sgt. Troy A. Gardner wrote in November about allegations of abuse reported by Husson students. “[Redacted] advised that a previous official at Husson College [k]new about the abuse allegations,” he wrote. “Allegations by two new students: one student went to the President Bill Beardsley.
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