RHODE ISLAND
Post-Star
DON LEHMAN dlehman@poststar.com
A Greenwich man who is serving a state prison sentence for possession of child pornography is the subject of a police complaint of child sexual abuse at a prestigious prep school in Rhode Island.
The school is embroiled in an unfolding sex scandal, according to a lawyer and media reports.
Timothy H. Tefft was identified as one of five former employees of St. George’s School in Middletown, Rhode Island, who had been accused of sexual abuse by former students, according to a report in Thursday’s Boston Globe newspaper.
Tefft was editor of the Greenwich Journal weekly newspaper in Greenwich, until his arrest in 2013 for possessing child pornography. He is serving a five-year federal prison sentence for the pornography conviction.
The public identification of Tefft in the Rhode Island case this week comes as more than 40 former students have come forward, alleging they were sexually abused decades earlier by staff members and older students.
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