Teacher fired, charged with rape at gilman

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Anonymous wrote:+1. Former parent. I have many emotions but not that much information. This is a devastating crime. Right now, I blame only Chris Bendann. I certainly don’t blame any teenagers who heard rumors and didn’t report them, although I wonder if they did and if adults did. I’m following the story, and offering support to the community and especially to the boys who were abused and reported it. Thank God they did. They are heroes in a horrific story.

Current upper school parent— there were no rumors of the abuse until last month. Everyone was shocked. Bendann was very successful in manipulating his victims into silence.

The school openly allowed him to sleep over with students AGAINST school policy. The school clearly knew about it and did NOTHING. What kind of administrators allow teachers to sleep over with students with zero supervision by any other adult? Gilman already had a horrific recent history of student sex assault by teachers.

That’s messed up.

Can you please share your source that the administration knew he was having sleepovers? Thanks.

Don’t you think investigators already know? One hopes headmaster was directly asked under oath if he heard the rumors of teacher babysitting the students and forcing the students to strip naked in the parks and then run naked. DP

Yes, I would certainly hope that investigators would ask about that! But what I’m asking is if anyone has any evidence as of now that the administration knew. The previous poster claimed that the administration knew, so I was wondering how that poster got that information. I assume they have access to some verified facts, since they stated that so confidently.

Thank you to 20:58. To the above poster, do you imagine there’s the slightest possibility that headmaster knew nothing about the 15 years of frequent babysitting and sleepovers of his faculty with students... in blatant violation of school policy? Please be honest here.

Can you please cite your source for “15 years of frequent babysitting and sleepovers of his faculty with students”? Thanks.

Look, the reason why adults frequently claim they didn’t report rumored issues of concern, is that they didn’t have the evidence. And it’s been repeatedly said that it’s not your job to wait around for whatever evidence you wanted before reporting. As the law stipulates, it’s mandated that you (if you’re school staff), report any suspected abuse. Not your job to prove anything. You aren’t a detective specialized in child rape. Even a psychologist has stated on this thread that what is already known is only the tip of the iceberg, based on the fact that the rapist was employed by Gilman for 15 years. Please educate yourself a bit. We can only look forward to headmaster and the other staff forced to testify under oath if they had ever heard rumors of perp’s ignoring school policy (sleepovers with students) and other illegal activities with children. Perhaps some parents even mentioned to school staff that their children were driven home by perp, and given booze by same perp. Time will tell. Be patient.

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Anonymous wrote:+1. Former parent. I have many emotions but not that much information. This is a devastating crime. Right now, I blame only Chris Bendann. I certainly don’t blame any teenagers who heard rumors and didn’t report them, although I wonder if they did and if adults did. I’m following the story, and offering support to the community and especially to the boys who were abused and reported it. Thank God they did. They are heroes in a horrific story.

Current upper school parent— there were no rumors of the abuse until last month. Everyone was shocked. Bendann was very successful in manipulating his victims into silence.

The school openly allowed him to sleep over with students AGAINST school policy. The school clearly knew about it and did NOTHING. What kind of administrators allow teachers to sleep over with students with zero supervision by any other adult? Gilman already had a horrific recent history of student sex assault by teachers.

That’s messed up.

Can you please share your source that the administration knew he was having sleepovers? Thanks.

Don’t you think investigators already know? One hopes headmaster was directly asked under oath if he heard the rumors of teacher babysitting the students and forcing the students to strip naked in the parks and then run naked. DP

Yes, I would certainly hope that investigators would ask about that! But what I’m asking is if anyone has any evidence as of now that the administration knew. The previous poster claimed that the administration knew, so I was wondering how that poster got that information. I assume they have access to some verified facts, since they stated that so confidently.

Thank you to 20:58. To the above poster, do you imagine there’s the slightest possibility that headmaster knew nothing about the 15 years of frequent babysitting and sleepovers of his faculty with students... in blatant violation of school policy? Please be honest here.

Can you please cite your source for “15 years of frequent babysitting and sleepovers of his faculty with students”? Thanks.

Look, the reason why adults frequently claim they didn’t report rumored issues of concern, is that they didn’t have the evidence. And it’s been repeatedly said that it’s not your job to wait around for whatever evidence you wanted before reporting. As the law stipulates, it’s mandated that you (if you’re school staff), report any suspected abuse. Not your job to prove anything. You aren’t a detective specialized in child rape. Even a psychologist has stated on this thread that what is already known is only the tip of the iceberg, based on the fact that the rapist was employed by Gilman for 15 years. Please educate yourself a bit. We can only look forward to headmaster and the other staff forced to testify under oath if they had ever heard rumors of perp’s ignoring school policy (sleepovers with students) and other illegal activities with children. Perhaps some parents even mentioned to school staff that their children were driven home by perp, and given booze by same perp. Time will tell. Be patient.

Oh, I’m fine with being patient. I was just wondering why you keep claiming stuff happened and trying to stoke outrage, when we don’t actually have those facts. Until we actually find out from the investigation, how about we cool it with the speculation about what could’ve happened, or “must” have been known by whom? That perhaps parents said stuff to the school staff? Why are you even engaging in making up these scenarios? The reality is quite bad enough without layering on rumors and speculation. There’s plenty to be outraged about without making stuff up about the head of school, administration, etc.

If you make accusations without any actual evidence, waving your hand and saying “it must surely be so, everyone knows that it’s common sense that it is so” you are doing nothing but spreading rumors. You are not helping the victims one bit.

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Anonymous wrote:+1. Former parent. I have many emotions but not that much information. This is a devastating crime. Right now, I blame only Chris Bendann. I certainly don’t blame any teenagers who heard rumors and didn’t report them, although I wonder if they did and if adults did. I’m following the story, and offering support to the community and especially to the boys who were abused and reported it. Thank God they did. They are heroes in a horrific story.

Current upper school parent— there were no rumors of the abuse until last month. Everyone was shocked. Bendann was very successful in manipulating his victims into silence.

The school openly allowed him to sleep over with students AGAINST school policy. The school clearly knew about it and did NOTHING. What kind of administrators allow teachers to sleep over with students with zero supervision by any other adult? Gilman already had a horrific recent history of student sex assault by teachers.

That’s messed up.

Can you please share your source that the administration knew he was having sleepovers? Thanks.

Don’t you think investigators already know? One hopes headmaster was directly asked under oath if he heard the rumors of teacher babysitting the students and forcing the students to strip naked in the parks and then run naked. DP

Yes, I would certainly hope that investigators would ask about that! But what I’m asking is if anyone has any evidence as of now that the administration knew. The previous poster claimed that the administration knew, so I was wondering how that poster got that information. I assume they have access to some verified facts, since they stated that so confidently.

Thank you to 20:58. To the above poster, do you imagine there’s the slightest possibility that headmaster knew nothing about the 15 years of frequent babysitting and sleepovers of his faculty with students... in blatant violation of school policy? Please be honest here.

Can you please cite your source for “15 years of frequent babysitting and sleepovers of his faculty with students”? Thanks.

Look, the reason why adults frequently claim they didn’t report rumored issues of concern, is that they didn’t have the evidence. And it’s been repeatedly said that it’s not your job to wait around for whatever evidence you wanted before reporting. As the law stipulates, it’s mandated that you (if you’re school staff), report any suspected abuse. Not your job to prove anything. You aren’t a detective specialized in child rape. Even a psychologist has stated on this thread that what is already known is only the tip of the iceberg, based on the fact that the rapist was employed by Gilman for 15 years. Please educate yourself a bit. We can only look forward to headmaster and the other staff forced to testify under oath if they had ever heard rumors of perp’s ignoring school policy (sleepovers with students) and other illegal activities with children. Perhaps some parents even mentioned to school staff that their children were driven home by perp, and given booze by same perp. Time will tell. Be patient.

Oh, I’m fine with being patient. I was just wondering why you keep claiming stuff happened and trying to stoke outrage, when we don’t actually have those facts. Until we actually find out from the investigation, how about we cool it with the speculation about what could’ve happened, or “must” have been known by whom? That perhaps parents said stuff to the school staff? Why are you even engaging in making up these scenarios? The reality is quite bad enough without layering on rumors and speculation. There’s plenty to be outraged about without making stuff up about the head of school, administration, etc.

If you make accusations without any actual evidence, waving your hand and saying “it must surely be so, everyone knows that it’s common sense that it is so” you are doing nothing but spreading rumors. You are not helping the victims one bit.

Just be honest, PP. One thing certainly would have helped the many victims: Gilman enforcing its own policies. In light of past Gilman failures of protecting students from teacher rapists, you must certainly understand the community outrage, and how this happened yet again at the very same school? How exactly do you imagine this won’t happen yet again if no one in Gilman leadership is held accountable?
No consequences = No change. Open your eyes. Gilman promised to institute school policy changes last time. It’s appears they lied. Why? Who exactly was responsible for enforcing school policy? Wouldn’t that person be the headmaster? If not him, then who? Someone must finally be held accountable this time. Why not? “No one had a clue” is not a viable excuse considering how gravely children were harmed. If every single adult at Gilman missed every single red flag for 15 long years, they have no business providing an environment where pedophiles are able to have easy access to children. It’s imperative to end the abuse for good this time.

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Anonymous wrote:+1. Former parent. I have many emotions but not that much information. This is a devastating crime. Right now, I blame only Chris Bendann. I certainly don’t blame any teenagers who heard rumors and didn’t report them, although I wonder if they did and if adults did. I’m following the story, and offering support to the community and especially to the boys who were abused and reported it. Thank God they did. They are heroes in a horrific story.

Current upper school parent— there were no rumors of the abuse until last month. Everyone was shocked. Bendann was very successful in manipulating his victims into silence.

The school openly allowed him to sleep over with students AGAINST school policy. The school clearly knew about it and did NOTHING. What kind of administrators allow teachers to sleep over with students with zero supervision by any other adult? Gilman already had a horrific recent history of student sex assault by teachers.

When you say sleep over with students, you mean serve as an overnight babysitter? That’s very different. teachers are allowed to babysit just like in my sons public school, we use his teachers as sitters all the time. That’s not against school policy. Most schools I know allow that. the parents trusted him a little too much but babysitting is not against school policy as long as the teacher doesn’t currently teach the student. Would I allow a grown ass man to babysit my kids overnight? Probably not. But I do not believe it was against school policy. There are actually more sex abuse incidents in public schools than in private schools so there is that.

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Anonymous wrote:+1. Former parent. I have many emotions but not that much information. This is a devastating crime. Right now, I blame only Chris Bendann. I certainly don’t blame any teenagers who heard rumors and didn’t report them, although I wonder if they did and if adults did. I’m following the story, and offering support to the community and especially to the boys who were abused and reported it. Thank God they did. They are heroes in a horrific story.

Current upper school parent— there were no rumors of the abuse until last month. Everyone was shocked. Bendann was very successful in manipulating his victims into silence.

You really think as a parent that you have half a clue about what was or wasn't known to school administrators? Come on.

PP, it’s no use replying to that person. They will never hear anything that contradicts their own worldview. Their own issues are so overwhelming that they believe they’re an expert on what happened at Gilman. They very much are not.

The Gilman community needs support, not random accusations from an amateur criminologist.

This person who keeps repeating the same thing over and over is so tiresome. Instead of this being a useful thread to discuss the dangers to our children and how to protect them, it has become a soapbox for them to spew hatred for Gilman.

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Anonymous wrote:I was victimized by a teacher at a private school when I was a similar age, and in somewhat similar circumstances. I carried that trauma privately as my secret for a couple of decades. When I decided to try to take action (finally brave enough to even Google the teacher's name), I learned I wasn't remotely alone. By the time I settled with my former school, I was the 61st man who his former schools (there were several) had paid after settlement or verdicts (payments ranged from 200k to more than 2 million).

If this teacher was at Gilman for 15 years, I'd assume there are dozens and dozens of victims.

I'm in disbelief, but maybe I shouldn't be, that it's 2023 and any school is so careless that this behavior could go on for 15 years.

I should add, for the posters out there speculating that the abuse may have been recent only, the first claim paid against the teacher who abused me was ifrom a series of assaults against a high school freshman in the teacher's first year of his little more than twenty years of teaching.

My advice to parents of sons who went to Gilman over past 15 years is to have a conversation with your child to make sure they are OK.

And one more thing, don't assume that your child is safe just because this teacher didn't teach your son. The teacher who abused me was never directly my teacher.

Thank you for sharing what happened to you at school. People here who truly care about child safety, have hopefully learned very important information from your two posts. I hope Gilman steps up and offers to immediately pay for all student counseling (current and former) who were abused by Gilman teachers. All schools with any abuse history should do the same. Children must be protected from assault by school staff. That is a fundamental expectation and school obligation.

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Anonymous wrote:+1. Former parent. I have many emotions but not that much information. This is a devastating crime. Right now, I blame only Chris Bendann. I certainly don’t blame any teenagers who heard rumors and didn’t report them, although I wonder if they did and if adults did. I’m following the story, and offering support to the community and especially to the boys who were abused and reported it. Thank God they did. They are heroes in a horrific story.

Current upper school parent— there were no rumors of the abuse until last month. Everyone was shocked. Bendann was very successful in manipulating his victims into silence.

The school openly allowed him to sleep over with students AGAINST school policy. The school clearly knew about it and did NOTHING. What kind of administrators allow teachers to sleep over with students with zero supervision by any other adult? Gilman already had a horrific recent history of student sex assault by teachers.

That’s messed up.

Can you please share your source that the administration knew he was having sleepovers? Thanks.

Don’t you think investigators already know? One hopes headmaster was directly asked under oath if he heard the rumors of teacher babysitting the students and forcing the students to strip naked in the parks and then run naked. DP

Yes, I would certainly hope that investigators would ask about that! But what I’m asking is if anyone has any evidence as of now that the administration knew. The previous poster claimed that the administration knew, so I was wondering how that poster got that information. I assume they have access to some verified facts, since they stated that so confidently.

Thank you to 20:58. To the above poster, do you imagine there’s the slightest possibility that headmaster knew nothing about the 15 years of frequent babysitting and sleepovers of his faculty with students... in blatant violation of school policy? Please be honest here.

Can you please cite your source for “15 years of frequent babysitting and sleepovers of his faculty with students”? Thanks.

Look, the reason why adults frequently claim they didn’t report rumored issues of concern, is that they didn’t have the evidence. And it’s been repeatedly said that it’s not your job to wait around for whatever evidence you wanted before reporting. As the law stipulates, it’s mandated that you (if you’re school staff), report any suspected abuse. Not your job to prove anything. You aren’t a detective specialized in child rape. Even a psychologist has stated on this thread that what is already known is only the tip of the iceberg, based on the fact that the rapist was employed by Gilman for 15 years. Please educate yourself a bit. We can only look forward to headmaster and the other staff forced to testify under oath if they had ever heard rumors of perp’s ignoring school policy (sleepovers with students) and other illegal activities with children. Perhaps some parents even mentioned to school staff that their children were driven home by perp, and given booze by same perp. Time will tell. Be patient.

Oh, I’m fine with being patient. I was just wondering why you keep claiming stuff happened and trying to stoke outrage, when we don’t actually have those facts. Until we actually find out from the investigation, how about we cool it with the speculation about what could’ve happened, or “must” have been known by whom? That perhaps parents said stuff to the school staff? Why are you even engaging in making up these scenarios? The reality is quite bad enough without layering on rumors and speculation. There’s plenty to be outraged about without making stuff up about the head of school, administration, etc.

If you make accusations without any actual evidence, waving your hand and saying “it must surely be so, everyone knows that it’s common sense that it is so” you are doing nothing but spreading rumors. You are not helping the victims one bit.

Just be honest, PP. One thing certainly would have helped the many victims: Gilman enforcing its own policies. In light of past Gilman failures of protecting students from teacher rapists, you must certainly understand the community outrage, and how this happened yet again at the very same school? How exactly do you imagine this won’t happen yet again if no one in Gilman leadership is held accountable?
No consequences = No change. Open your eyes. Gilman promised to institute school policy changes last time. It’s appears they lied. Why? Who exactly was responsible for enforcing school policy? Wouldn’t that person be the headmaster? If not him, then who? Someone must finally be held accountable this time. Why not? “No one had a clue” is not a viable excuse considering how gravely children were harmed. If every single adult at Gilman missed every single red flag for 15 long years, they have no business providing an environment where pedophiles are able to have easy access to children. It’s imperative to end the abuse for good this time.

After the investigation of the incidences in the 50s and the 90s, Gilman put together an action plan. I don’t have any reason to think that they lied about that, nor that they didn’t follow it. In fact, the swift action once an accusation reached the head of school makes me think that they did follow it. They have been very open and constant in communication, and have continually urged anyone with information to bring it directly to the authorities.

If you think that policies were violated, please be specific about which policies, with information as to how you know that they were violated,. Because unless you have actual knowledge of administration ignoring their own policies, you are doing nothing but spreading rumors.

Even the best policies, perfectly followed, would not be able to prevent all abuse. Your assumption of malfeasance on the part of the school is, so far, unfounded. If we learn that there was negligence or cover-up, I’ll be just as mad as you are, but until then, I will not vilify the faculty and administration of Gilman. They were horribly betrayed by a colleague they trusted. They care about our sons, I see it every day. This isn’t their fault.

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Fifteen years of ignoring the flags from one teacher is egregious. Anyone who believes there were 15 years of zero red flags is in denial. Ask any investigator specializing in this field. School may claim complete ignorance, which would be incredible considering its sad history of child abuse. If that’s the case, there’s no hope of preventing more abuse.

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Anonymous wrote:+1. Former parent. I have many emotions but not that much information. This is a devastating crime. Right now, I blame only Chris Bendann. I certainly don’t blame any teenagers who heard rumors and didn’t report them, although I wonder if they did and if adults did. I’m following the story, and offering support to the community and especially to the boys who were abused and reported it. Thank God they did. They are heroes in a horrific story.

Current upper school parent— there were no rumors of the abuse until last month. Everyone was shocked. Bendann was very successful in manipulating his victims into silence.

The school openly allowed him to sleep over with students AGAINST school policy. The school clearly knew about it and did NOTHING. What kind of administrators allow teachers to sleep over with students with zero supervision by any other adult? Gilman already had a horrific recent history of student sex assault by teachers.

When you say sleep over with students, you mean serve as an overnight babysitter? That’s very different. teachers are allowed to babysit just like in my sons public school, we use his teachers as sitters all the time. That’s not against school policy. Most schools I know allow that. the parents trusted him a little too much but babysitting is not against school policy as long as the teacher doesn’t currently teach the student. Would I allow a grown ass man to babysit my kids overnight? Probably not. But I do not believe it was against school policy. There are actually more sex abuse incidents in public schools than in private schools so there is that.

What is your source for this? I work in the child welfare system and have not seen this reported anywhere. Are you talking about numbers or percentage? And let's be honest - many private Catholic schools have been the source of sexual abuse cases for decades. In the end, this isn't a private vs public school issue. Children are far more likely to be sexually abused by a relative or fictive kin (trusted close family friend, godparent, etc.) than a school staff member.

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Anonymous wrote:+1. Former parent. I have many emotions but not that much information. This is a devastating crime. Right now, I blame only Chris Bendann. I certainly don’t blame any teenagers who heard rumors and didn’t report them, although I wonder if they did and if adults did. I’m following the story, and offering support to the community and especially to the boys who were abused and reported it. Thank God they did. They are heroes in a horrific story.

Current upper school parent— there were no rumors of the abuse until last month. Everyone was shocked. Bendann was very successful in manipulating his victims into silence.

You really think as a parent that you have half a clue about what was or wasn't known to school administrators? Come on.

PP, it’s no use replying to that person. They will never hear anything that contradicts their own worldview. Their own issues are so overwhelming that they believe they’re an expert on what happened at Gilman. They very much are not.

The Gilman community needs support, not random accusations from an amateur criminologist.

This person who keeps repeating the same thing over and over is so tiresome. Instead of this being a useful thread to discuss the dangers to our children and how to protect them, it has become a soapbox for them to spew hatred for Gilman.

The worst danger to our children is any environment that has an established history of repeated child abuse. People who want to protect children learn the common red flags. And then you immediately report to your local police department, NOT the school. You do not sit quietly and wait for evidence. That’s not your job. Your job is to simply report. You get a copy of your report. It’s that simple.

Now please make your contribution. “Nobody knew anything” doesn’t count.

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Anonymous wrote:I can see that you have a lot of your own issues that you are unpacking here. I’m so sorry that happened to you. But I’m not sure that it gives you particular insight into this situation right now. And calling for the head of school’s head to roll, before any more facts are revealed, is very premature. Maybe we will learn that there were culpable failures to follow procedure. Or maybe we won’t. But as a current parent, I have no interest in playing the blame game until we actually know something.

Sufficient unto the day is the evil there Speculation about what might or what you believe “must” have happened is not helpful to anyone.

Sorry, but II think you may be confusing me with another poster.

I didn't call for heads to roll. I'm not speculating on who knew what or who is liable.

All I'm saying is that , from my own experience of having been abused by a teacher who taught for more than 20 years, parents should a assume they're were many, many assaults over a 15 year career there. And it'l also seems worth considering how deeply and firmly victims can bury and hide what happened for decades, avoiding telling even the people who could most help them. If I was a parent of a son who was at Gilman over the past 15 years,, I would definitely have a conversation with my child.

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Too many emotions. Too many axes to grind. Too many people with biases against prominent institutions.

I reserve all judgment in absence of any meaningful evidence. I won't judge or castigate Gilman because there's no evidence of a cover up. I remember being a teen, both middle and upper schools, back in the 1990s and I know all the things that happened that kids never told teachers and teachers were often clueless. Nice and capable people who would never have been willing to cover up something like an abuse scandal. But kids are very capable of just not telling teachers anything. Don't you remember being a kid? I find it very plausible this Gilman teacher got away with his behavior for 15 years.

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Anonymous wrote:Here’s what we actually know… boys have been raped by a teacher who had been there for 15 years. Teacher had been buying the children alcohol. Teacher was forcing the boys to run naked in public. The father of said teacher sat on the school board.

Here’s what any professional working with child sex abuse knows: over the course of 15 years, there have been many, many victims. Perpetrators are relentless with their grooming techniques. Victims often suffer their entire lives trying to cope with the trauma of child sex abuse. They’re often unable to ever establish healthy intimate relationships.

Presumably, parents expressed concern when their children arrived home smelling of alcohol, after getting driven by the teacher. Detectives are investigating.

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Everyone knows it’s pretty much near impossible for this to go on for 15 years without anyone knowing anything. Families of neighboring schools are saying “everyone knew”. Kids talk about things like this. I wish someone had to guts to report. People must be held accountable this time. Or the sex abuse will just
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Everyone knew that he would drive the kids to sports practice over the summer, and that he would house sit. No one knew he was a sexually abusing kids or buying them alcohol. Many of the teachers and heads of school have their own kids there. If it is found out that a certain teacher knew about the sexual abuse they will be terminated. Signed, someone close to the situation

Anyone claiming no one knew needs to stop. You only know about yourself. You do not know what others may have heard from students or from parents who may have not been happy about all the alcohol given to students or the other illegal acts perpetrated on students by the teacher during his 15 years of employment by the school.

We’ll see what people will expose under oath. That’s all that really matters. No one really wants to admit having heard the rumors. It’s tragic.

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Anonymous wrote:Too many emotions. Too many axes to grind. Too many people with biases against prominent institutions.

I reserve all judgment in absence of any meaningful evidence. I won't judge or castigate Gilman because there's no evidence of a cover up. I remember being a teen, both middle and upper schools, back in the 1990s and I know all the things that happened that kids never told teachers and teachers were often clueless. Nice and capable people who would never have been willing to cover up something like an abuse scandal. But kids are very capable of just not telling teachers anything. Don't you remember being a kid? I find it very plausible this Gilman teacher got away with his behavior for 15 years.

This, and it seems to be the same person posting again and again in this thread.

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Evidence of teacher on student rape has already been documented. No need for the community to reserve judgement. What has happened for 15 years is horrific. Any institution that has a history of child sex assault is horrific. What change will they propose now? Anything?