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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For sure if the school administration knew there was a rapist among them, that would be an issue. [/quote]
Gilman outright failed to report rumors of faculty giving the boys alcohol. They can absolutely be sued for that. They have a legal obligation to report anything like that. Talk with your sons, people, even if they were former students there. This can easily escalate into a huge lawsuit and payouts, considering the perp was there for 15 years. [/quote]

Well, first you’d have to prove that they actually knew about it, not “they must have known”.

If they were culpable, they should pay. But people are very naive to believe that an abuser can’t conceal abuse. They can, and do. [/quote]

All it takes is one parent to report to detectives that they had asked a school employee if they heard about the kids getting booze from Chris. It’s already happened. At that instant school was legally required to contact police.[/quote]

Again, you seem to be confusing civil and criminal liability.  The police are going to be focused on locating victims and getting their story, not possible negligence by the school.[/quote]

Teachers and admin are mandated reporters and can be prosecuted for failing to report.
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Mandated reporting applies to physical or sexual abuse, or neglect. While giving booze to minors is illegal, there is no legal mandate for reporting [/quote]

If Gilman faculty were legally required to report every instance they knew of adults giving alcohol to students, there would be a lot of Roland Park parents getting reported every Monday after hosting parties for their kid and friends over the weekend [/quote]
Cops will determine who at Gilman participated in the cover-up of the rape of the boys. It had been going on for years and years. Perp figured he could keep doing it for another 15 years as long as the board would continue with business as usual.[/quote]

Okay, you’ve made up a whole story. IF Gilman covered it up, they should be held accountable. There’s zero evidence so far that they did. Let’s wait until there’s some actual evidence before going nuts about a coverup, okay?[/quote]
Again, the detectives will figure out how this went on for 15 years. Check your comprehension. They know that men don’t turn into pedophiles overnight. He was a pedophiles the day Gilman hired him at age 23. Just ask anyone knowledgeable in this field. We’ll never know how many boys suffered sex abuse at that school. It’s a real tragedy. Fifteen years is a long time to carry on with something like this. But who knows, maybe they’ll decide his pedophilia suddenly came out of no where just last year, and there are no other victims.
On the other hand, news reports said boyS were forced to run naked in the park. Can you imagine?[/quote]

Wow, that’s a lot of words to say “since I don’t have proof, I’m going to perseverate on what I think must have been the case”. Proof will come, or it will not. Your deep conviction proves nothing.[/quote]
Yet again, detectives will figure things out.[/quote]

So will the civil lawyers who get access to the emails and notes about this guy over the years. Shit storm is coming. [/quote]
+1. Highly doubtful they can survive yet another scandal. Students and faculty are searching for alternatives. Shit storm is right.[/quote]

Oh, for heavens sake. Stop infecting this thread with your repeated hysterical posts about DOOM FOR GILMAN. 3 teachers over a  70  year span doesn’t take down a school like Gilman. Heck, TWENTY teachers didn’t take  down Horace Mann. TWENTY.

It’s not minimizing the horror to say: right now, with what we know, this doesn’t define the school. It’s a terrible thing that happened to them, not a terrible thing that they did. If evidence comes out that they did do something terrible in conjunction, well, that will change things. But we’re not there right now so your histrionics are indeed premature.

And I bet you that next year’s admissions will be just as tough as this year’s. They aren’t going to have any trouble filling their classes. And I don’t know where you’re getting your information about students and faculty “searching for alternatives”, but none of the [i]actual[/i] Gilman families I know are even considering it. [/quote]

This. Including that the Gilman family I know well is not considering switching.  It’s a great school. It absolutely shaped my son for the better and I’m grateful for it. I don’t believe any one covered up abuse. But I wonder if people in administration knew Bendann was babysitting and didn’t call him out for it. I hope not. [/quote]

Of course they knew. It’s natural for everyone to be in denial that child rape was going on under their noses, and “no adult had a clue”. Making the kids go completely naked in public is really evil and demented. The boys talked about it with kids from other schools. It was no secret.

When children are sexually assaulted, everything is changed. Everything. Ask any professional. Or course adults knew something very wrong was happening. Yet no one cared enough to put a stop to the systematic sex assault the children.

Most people know there’s a huge effort in some circles to normalize adults having sex with children. It’s nothing but sheer evil to allow this to be done to children. These boys were threatened. The rest of their lives have changed. For many victims, it’ll take decades of pain and shame until they can add their names to the enormous list of victims. Many will go to their graves with the suffering they endured.

Whenever it may happen that any former Gilman student is ready for professional counseling services, the school must be forced to pay for it. With previous sex assaults at Gilman, the school got off having to pay only for the students who were able to immediately come forward at the time of the investigation. Gilman has an ethical obligation to remedy that evil, and pay for counseling whenever any former student is ready to get desperately needed help and support. The damage perpetrated is unfathomable to most of you.
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