In January 2016, I was asked to conduct an investigation concerning sexual abuse at St. George’s School, and the school’s response to reports of abuse, from 1960 to the present. At the time, St. George’s faced a firestorm of public criticism about the way it had handled complaints about sexual abuse at the school, and about the findings of an earlier investigation, commissioned in 2015 by the school’s Board of Trustees, addressing those issues.

I was engaged jointly by St. George’s School and SGS for Healing, a group of St. George’s alumni who had been abused at St. George’s when they were students. My charge was to conduct a truly independent investigation, impartially and without favoritism; to learn what happened and why; and to report the results of the investigation publicly.