Monday, August 6, 2012

Penn State Sex Abuse Scandal Inspired Phone Call

It's a landmark for the Boston Globe
"Abuse allegations surface at Beverly school; Inquiry launched after 2 ex-students speak up" by Walter Robinson |  Globe Correspondent, August 01, 2012

David G. Breed, a Colorado businessman, read the recent damning, 267-page report about the sexual abuse scandal at Penn State and decided it was time for a long overdue reckoning.

He then sent off two e-mails to the Landmark School in Beverly, demanding that the school reopen an investigation against the school administrator Breed says groped him in 1979, when he was 13.

“Do you want to be Paterno?’’ he wrote to a counselor at the school. “You clean the proverbial closet or I will.’’  

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Breed’s July 12 e-mails have sparked investigations by the Landmark School, prompted another groping allegation against the same administrator at the private residential school, and sparked accusations from Breed that Landmark did nothing when he first lodged a complaint two decades ago.

The allegations could have their biggest impact in the Rockport public schools, where Howard J. Kasper, the man accused of fondling the two former Landmark students, has worked since 2000. Kasper is now a guidance counselor in the Rockport Middle School....

The post-Penn State allegations have thrown the 41-year-old Landmark School into turmoil....

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Update: Rockport school counselor on leave due to allegations of past abuse

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