Choate Rosemary Hall, a college preparatory school located in Wallingford, Connecticut, recently released an internal report that documents decades of covering up child abuse and protecting its own institution and employees. The report details abuse of 24 students by 12 faculty members of the school. Not one of these cases was investigated by the police or referred for prosecution. It appears that the impetus for Choate’s internal investigation was a series of inquiries from the Boston Globe, which is well respected for its “Spotlight” into similar abuses within the Catholic church. After these inquiries Choate hired Covington and Burling, an out-of-state law firm, to internally investigate claims of sexual abuse of students by faculty. Their report is titled “Report to the Board of Trustees of Choate Rosemary Hall” and dated April 2017.
We are very concerned that the tone of Covington’s report and Choate’s actions surrounding the report’s creation and release show a deeper concern for Choate’s own liabilities than for the multitude of victims, known and unknown. We say unknown because it has been substantiated that upon reports of faculty sexual abuse of students, some of those faculty were sent on their way to other schools with positive recommendations. This practice has occurred with sufficient regularity within the prep school community that it has earned its own name: “passing the trash.”
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