Sexual Abuse at Choate Went On for Decades, School Acknowledges

[brooklynite]

Source: New York Times

Choate Rosemary Hall said on Thursday that at least 12 former teachers had sexually molested — and in at least one case raped — students at the elite Connecticut boarding school in a pattern of abuse dating to the 1960s.

The allegations include instances of “intimate kissing” and “intimate touching” in a report prepared by an investigator for the board of trustees.

Parents of a Choate student complained to the school in the early 1980s after their daughter contracted herpes from an English teacher. And in another case, the report details a student’s rape on a school trip to Costa Rica.

None of the teachers’ actions were reported to the police. In some cases, teachers were allowed to resign after being confronted with evidence of misconduct and administrators wrote letters of recommendations for teachers who were let go.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/13/nyregion/sexual-abuse-choate-connecticut-school.html

[luvMIdog]

1. I can't help but wonder why on earth they wrote letters of recommendations unless

they themselves were complicit as well . I do understand them trying to hide it to protect themselves from publicity as vile as that itself is, but to write letters of recommendation is so horrid and bizarre. Sad story

[Squinch]

6. To get them out of their own back yard and hoist them off on another unsuspecting group of

fourteen year olds.

It was common practice till all these atrocities came to light.

[PoliticAverse]

2. "and administrators wrote letters of recommendations for teachers who were let go." n/t

[japple]

3. Probably another case of "follow the money." The molesters got enough of a payoff

to relocate somewhere else and the swells whose children were molested didn't want adverse publicity for their families or their alma maters.

[Midnight Writer]

4. I worked for a company with dozens of branches around the country.

If a manager of one branch had a "problem employee" to deal with, they would often write them up with an excellent recommendation so they can get rid of them.

Conversely, often employees who were very valuable to the manager would get bad letters so they couldn't transfer out.

[ananda]

5. How do they distinguish sex abuse and rape?

IOW, they were ALL rapes!

[brooklynite]

7. Rape is legally defined as non-consensual penetration.

Touching genitals would be sexual abuse but not rapew.