Montgomery County police have charged a former priest with inappropriately touching students at Georgetown Preparatory School, the prestigious North Bethesda institution where he taught from 1989 to 2003.
Police said Wednesday that Garrett Orr, 57, is charged with two counts of child abuse and one count of third-degree sexual offense in the case, which arose after a former student came forward in 2009 with a report of sexual abuse.
This is not the first time that Orr has been investigated. An inquiry by his Jesuit overseers concluded in 2006 that he had inappropriately touched a student at the Jesuit-run boys' school, whose rolling campus sits off Rockville Pike.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/ex-priest-charged-with-sex-abuse-of-georgetown-prep-students/2011/02/02/ABT76yQ_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.ba291b0b5e42
A former priest was sentenced to five years of supervised probation Thursday for fondling two students at Georgetown Preparatory School, where he taught from 1989 to 2003…“The headmaster dismissed the allegations as untrue, and the matter was not reported to the Montgomery County Police Department for seven months.”
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Eric Ruyak, who was groped by Orr in 2002, and his father said in interviews that they were disappointed with how certain officials at the school reacted when he came forward. The Washington Post does not typically identify abuse victims, but Ruyak agreed to be identified.
“They were not interested in dealing with Orr,” Eric Ruyak said. “They wanted it to go away.”
His father, Robert Ruyak, who served on Georgetown Prep’s board of trustees from 1994 to 2007, said certain school officials, namely two teachers, conspired to paint his son as a rumor-spreading liar.
“They tried to get him expelled from school. It was absolutely ridiculous,” Robert Ruyak said, stressing that he still supports Georgetown Prep as an institution.
https://americasurvival.org/2018/09/sex-abuse-scandal-at-judge-kavanaughs-georgetown-prep-catholic-high-school.html
Clearly, the idea of hiding sexual misconduct comes from the Church first. When you protect pedo priests it sends a message to the boys. In fact, I am surprised the Church hasn't weighed in on their darling Kavanaugh. The organisation that created the Magdalene Laundries still treats women like subhumans.
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