The Unexpected Price of Reporting Abuse: Retaliation (www.bostonglobe.com)

Christine Cissy White 7/21/161:50 PM

The Boston Globe's spotlight team continues to do great reporting. In May, they ran a story about hundreds of students who had been sexually abused by staffers at close to 70 private schools in New England. Yesterday, they ran a story about the retaliation many faced at private schools after reporting.

When a small boarding school in the Berkshires discovered that a music teacher was having a sexual relationship with a female student, administrators responded in a way many parents would applaud: They fired him.
But Buxton School officials took another step as well. They asked the teenager to leave.
Just weeks before graduation in 1982, 18-year-old Erika Schickel was told that her continued presence would make others at the school uncomfortable. That included the teacher’s girlfriend, who worked there.

Full story here: https://www.bostonglobe.com/me...Apl84NKHO/story.html

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