Dr. Henry Paul, MD

Psychiatrist, Author and Educator

BURIED PORNOGRAPHY? BIZARRE TWIST IN SEXUAL ASSAULT CASES

January 18th, 2016

“This is the third lawsuit filed by Ponvert in recent months against prestigious Connecticut boarding schools. Ponvert has filed two similar lawsuits against the Indian Mountain School, also located in Lakeville, alleging similar instances of sexual assault and rape of young schoolboys by faculty members dating back to the 1980s.” Hartford Courant

26209317_sSince 2014, three lawsuits have been filed against Connecticut private schools; two at Indian Mountain and one at the prestigious Hotchkiss School, both in Lakeville, CT. Last week one of the cases took a bizarre turn when a judge ordered a dig on the school grounds to look for buried pornography. The Hartford Courant is reporting that a “federal judge has agreed to allow attorneys suing the Indian Mountain School in Salisbury over alleged student sex abuse to dig for evidence of child pornography claimed to be buried on school grounds.”

In the case of Indian Mountain School, former students told the Republican-American newspaper that the school failed to secure their safety from “sexual predators who had unfettered access to the school because they were teachers and even administrators.”

A Federal report in 2014 said, “The failure of U.S. schools to protect students from sexual abuse by school personnel is a story of district cover-ups, lack of training, incomplete teacher background checks and little guidance from the U.S. Department of Education.”

Many of the victims of sexual abuse are left to deal with a lifetime of anxiety, nightmares, panic, terror and other psychological issues. They struggle with sexual orientation and have trouble establishing healthy relationships. So how does this happen and why does it take so long, in many cases, for victims to come forward?

I think that a combination of denial by society and the authorities combined with devious sociopathic traits of the predators make it very hard to track these individuals. Plus, the very liberal court system that is very busy protecting predators in the name of fair and non-discriminatory treatment plus the charm and leadership roles and charisma of the perpetrators. But now there is a coming out of the victims broadly publicized which gives courage to the victim to tell what happened. Let’s hope in the end justice is served.

LINKS
Former Student Sues Hotchkiss School Over Alleged Sexual Abuse
Judge Allows Dig In Search Of Child Porn Buried At Private Connecticut School
Private school faces third suit
Federal Agencies Can Better Support State Efforts to Prevent and Respond to Sexual Abuse by School Personnel

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