RHODE ISLAND
Greenwich Times
By Robert Marchant Friday, January 22, 2016
A former Brunswick School teacher, now in jail, has been linked to an unfolding scandal involving sexual abuse at a Rhode Island prep school.
A Boston lawyer who has been representing former students at St. George’s School in Middletown, R.I., named Timothy Tefft as one of the previously unidentified alleged perpetrators of abuse at the Rhode Island school.
Tefft is currently serving five years in federal prison after his guilty plea in 2014 to a child pornography charge.
The former teacher and newspaper editor was at the center of abuse allegations at Brunswick School in Greenwich. Tefft, who taught at Brunswick School in the 1970s and 1980s, was accused in 2013 by three former students of molesting them in the 1980s. The abuse allegedly occurred in New York state. No criminal charges or lawsuits were ever brought. Brunswick School officials had no comment on Tefft this week.
Tefft, who was 65 at the time of his arrest in 2013, acknowledged possessing dozens of files of child pornography.
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