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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To whom it may concern: 
Please shut-up with the “it can happen anywhere” garbage. What has been happening at Gilman, happens only where school administration chooses to allow rumors of abuse/rape to go unreported to the police department. Schools have a LEGAL obligation to report POSSIBLE abuse of students. It’s NOT the school’s job to determine if a rumor has merit or not.

Gilman does not have trained investigators on its payroll. Gilman should have reported to police the FIRST rumor of their students getting alcohol from a teacher. They broke the law right there. Of course no one will be held accountable for their silence.

Who cares that the perpetrator was a former student, or that his father is well liked in the community? Apparently, administrators cared a lot about protecting the ongoing sexual abuse of its students. Someone (besides the rapist teacher) MUST be held accountable for this atrocity perpetrated on these young boys. Victims of sexual abuse typically need years  and years of very high quality therapy. The police are begging other victims to please come forward. We all know, however, that most victims choose not to speak of their abuse. It’s just to painful and not worth the ordeal of going public with this sort of thing. May God give them strength. My heart breaks for what they endured. 
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There were not previous rumors of abuse/rape.  [/quote]

That you know of - the point is the school may have known or suspected inappropriate conduct at the very least with the drinking and close relationships. Enough to put a stop to it. [/quote]

I would know as I have a child in the upper school, and like many in the community, know far more than has been reported.  What your suggesting is not how it became known.  [/quote]

How did it become known then? I assumed it was because of the investigation going on. Is that not the case?[/quote]
This exactly. The school wanted the ability to say that they have “become aware” that a “former” teacher has been arrested for raping male students. Seems like they had legal counsel for a while. Am not seeing that they’re wanting to clean up their ways at all. I’d be removing my son from that school immediately. Who knows what else may still be going on there.[/quote]

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