St. George's sex-abuse scandal: Report excoriates school for decades of unchecked abuse
Systematic sexual abuse at the elite St. George's School created a "private hell" for at least 61 students and marked a "betrayal of trust" for those students and their parents, an independent investigator concluded in a much-anticipated report released Thursday morning.
The exhaustive report — 196 pages plus more than 120 pages of exhibits — from independent investigator Martin F. Murphy excoriates the private Episcopal boarding school in Middletown for allowing unchecked abuse in the past, primarily in the 1970s and 1980s.
Though "some concrete steps" were taken to protect students, "in the 1970s and 1980s, St. George's leaders did little, and certainly not enough," Murphy's report states. "Fortunately, the school "is certainly a very different place now," one that promotes a culture of respect," and reports abuse to authorities.
"Many of these students remember St. George's as a place where their abusers created a kind of private hell for them — a place where they suffered trauma and emotional wounds that for many, remain unhealed," Murphy wrote.
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