PHILADELPHIA (PA)
Philadelphia Inquirer
MARI A. SCHAEFER, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
POSTED: Sunday, April 26, 2015
The Episcopal Academy student was 13, he said, when teacher Richard Perkins Smith gave him and some classmates pornographic magazines.
Smith watched as the boys, wearing only briefs, became sexually excited and “horsed around” with one another, he said.
“He knew damn well what was going on – and he facilitated it,” said the former student.
Now a middle-aged man, the former student is among nearly a dozen Episcopal alumni who say Smith sexually abused them decades ago.
In a letter sent this month to alumni and others, officials at the prestigious Delaware County school disclosed that at least 11 former students had come forward to say they were abused by Smith, an Episcopal teacher from 1970 to 1990 and administrator until 1998.
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