RHODE ISLAND
Town and County Magazine
by SAM DANGREMOND
JAN 5, 2016
St. George’s School, a boarding school perched on an idyllic 125 acres overlooking the Atlantic Ocean in Middletown, RI, looks like an academic paradise.
But recent developments in a nascent sex scandal suggest that more than 40 students may have been the victims of abuse at the school—mostly in the 1970s and 1980s—according to the Boston Globe.
In December, St. George’s released the findings of an investigation it conducted into allegations of abuse. The report found that “23 students were sexually abused by three school employees in the 1970s and ’80s … The perpetrators were fired, but the prep school did not report them at the time to child protection services, as mandated by law.
“In addition, three other employees during the same period engaged in sexual misconduct with a single student apiece, bringing the total to 26 victims of staff abuse, according to the draft report to alumni, signed by headmaster Eric Peterson and board chair Leslie Heaney,” the Globe reports.
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