School Fined for Not Reporting Sex Abuse

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&ncid=718&e=8&u=/ap/20050425/ap_on_re_us/boarding_school

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"The elite Groton School pleaded guilty Monday to failing to report students' sexual abuse complaints to the state.
Groton officials entered the plea on the day the case was scheduled to go to trial. The school was fined $1,250 and avoided a public airing of damaging testimony.

The investigation began in 1999 after the parents of one student told school administrators that he had been sexually assaulted by a group of older male students. Another student later came forward to say that he'd also been abused by fellow students.

State law requires school officials, doctors, clergy and others to alert social services of any suspected abuse. The boarding school was indicted last summer on one charge of failing to file an abuse report. No individuals were charged.

School officials have said they never hid any abuse, and that they reported three allegations to the state in prior years. They said the student in question did not provide enough information to make a report."

When will people start standing up for what's right?

abuse that was occurring.

What the FUCK is going on?

They might even have to raise the tuition from the current $35,800 ($26,850 for day students) to pay for it . . . .

:sarcasm:

A British public school?

Amateurs. All those pesky Americans laws make it sooo hard to emulate the British upper classes.