Prep School Ex-Students Call for 2nd Probe Into Abuse Claims

Interesting further developments reported this morning. First, it turns out that the lawyer who conducted the investigation for St. George’s was not only the law partner of the school’s legal counsel, but also her husband. But more importantly, the school’s board of trustees and the victims’ group made a joint statement announcing that the school has agreed to have another investigation done, and that the trustees and the victims’ group will jointly select the investigator. And the advocacy of the victims has had another direct impact: one of the abusers named publicly by the victims was an Episcopalian priest (I think he was the assistant to the school chaplain at the time), while the school’s investigation had only identified him as “Perpetrator #2.” The Bishop of Pennsylvania has now removed that priest from the Episcopalian ministry in that state, where he had been acting as a substitute minister.