Decades Of Sexual Abuse At Bucks County Prep School Detailed In Grand Jury Report

Teachers and faculty at an elite Bucks County private school sexually abused students for five decades, and school leadership failed to report the allegations to authorities, allowing the behavior to continue for more than 50 years, a grand jury investigation report on the Solebury School released Wednesday said.

The grand jury began investigating the boarding school after numerous victims came forward with disturbing allegations, including teachers having sex with students and another who brought a student to an off-campus party where he was violently raped.

Though school authorities were made aware of the allegations of sexual abuse on many occasions, nothing was done to stop it or prevent it from happening again, the report concluded.

"Not a single teacher was contemporaneously or formally investigated by the school for the allegations of sexual misconduct," the report says. Solebury School is a college preparatory school for seventh- through 12th-grade boarding and day students.

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