A series of sexual abuse scandals is forcing a reckoning at some of New
England's most exclusive boarding schools and sending a shudder through
similar institutions around the country that have long been training
grounds for members of America's elite.
At St. George's School in Rhode Island, scores of alumni have come
forward to complain of being sexually violated by teachers or
schoolmates. At St. Paul's in New Hampshire,
a rape trial revealed a tradition in which senior boys competed to have
sex with younger girls. And at New Hampshire's Phillips Exeter Academy,
several graduates have accused faculty members of sexual abuse and
other inappropriate behavior.