Connecticut’s
Department of Children and Families has asked the state’s highest
criminal law enforcement agency to investigate whether employees at
Choate Rosemary Hall failed to report multiple allegations of sexual
abuse to the authorities, which they are required to do by law.
Choate, an elite boarding school in Wallingford, Conn., released a report this month that documented decades of sexual abuse
at the school, in which teachers took advantage of students. In the
mid-1990s, a faculty member used a student’s discipline problems to
pressure her to have sex with him, the report said. One woman said she
had been preyed upon by two teachers while she was a student.