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AND Let’s be honest, none of the “scandals” discussed here or even everything else combined compares to the Toth case.  Yet it seems that since the Toth case came to light moms on the DCUM forums have been working overtime to elevate any other private school scandal to a high level.  I think it’s pathetic, but I know it won’t stop.[/quote]

I've got a scandal for you, and it shows that the schools on the Close have not learned much in the last 30 years.  I was raped by xxxxx, a teacher at STA, who I knew from the coed Literary Club.  I was at NCS.  I could not believe he let me go alive.  We finally had a settlement with STA where I got a pittance in return for them giving him bad recs.  We got the next girl three times the money I got (different teacher).

I did not understand that crossing one line was not the same as another.  He crossed all of them.  He admitted to the psychiatrist that he had fondled me and french kissed me and I sat in xxxx office with xxxx and they told me that given what he had done, the most Christian thing I could do was let him continue to teach at the school so they could keep an eye on him.  My brother's locker was right next to his, and until we changed it, my brother was in his class.  He was an extremely popular teacher and when I finally admitted to being raped everyone hated me and did not believe me. And they had to let him go...

20 years later when I was married and a litigator we found a male victim, xxxxx was hired to be the head of a charter boarding school for troubled kids (I only found out about this cause the founder graduated from my IVY and it was being written up) and with me AND the male vic we still had to struggle to get the STA board of trustees to do the right thing.  1999, After the Catholic church scandals, after we knew that pedophiles did not reform.  So there you go.  The more things change, the more they stay the same.

When my son was three it turned out his wife was married to a registered sex offender who had been convicted and had his son in the school.  The new Principal and the head of the church had inherited the problem.  The victim, who was barely mentioned in all the blabber, was a student at Janney where the perp was a substitute teacher, and a parishioner at our church.  Having become a lawyer, I read the bastard's appeal.  He appealed one count of indecent exposure because it required intent, and the father had interrupted them so he had no intent to expose himself to the father.

We also had a registered sex offender at our church, who offered to withdraw if our priest would not reveal his name.  She refused.  The whole parish meeting was about "where is poor Mr. xxxxx going to get communion." He lives at xxxxx, the old folks home across the street from xxxxx.  This is the first time I liked our new priest.  She said "Well, it turns out Mr. xxxxx is Catholic, and he goes to Mass with his wife every Saturday and comes to our church (trolling) every Sunday."  That was the end of who are we going to bar from our church next, embezzlers?"

This happens everywhere, to everyone, and they still cover it up.  The only good defense is a good offense.  Talk to your kids.  Buy some books.  Read protecting the gift and the gift of fear.  And yes if my husband sees this he will be very unhappy so just take it for what it is, my two cents.

I am the only surviving Episcopalian in my family.

God bless everyone.

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