Article snippet: Frederic Lyman’s prep school teaching career spanned just six years, and four schools. On Wednesday, allegations of inappropriate behavior against him surfaced at Kent Denver, a private day school in Colorado, which means that Mr. Lyman now stands accused of misconduct with students at three of those schools, across three states. Mr. Lyman was one of 12 men named in an in-depth report on sexual abuse released by Choate Rosemary Hall, the prestigious Connecticut boarding school, in April. Investigators for the school, where he taught in the early 1980s, said that Mr. Lyman had sexual relationships with two students. He stalked one of them, according to the report, and gave her a black eye. Mr. Lyman was forced out of his job at Choate when administrators learned he had given one of the students herpes. But he left the school with a letter of recommendation, the report said, which allowed him to move on to Kent Denver in 1982, where administrators had no way of knowing what he had done. In a letter sent to the school community on Wednesday, Kent Denver said that three former students had contacted administrators in recent weeks with complaints about Mr. Lyman. A fourth person, a woman named Kirsten Johnson, approached The New York Times with her own story. Ms. Johnson asked to be identified by the name she had at the school, before she was married. She said that after her father discovered a letter Mr. Lyman wrote to her, suggesting they go skiing or meet for dinne... Link to the full article to read more
In a Brief Prep School Career, a Growing List of Sexual Misconduct Allegations - The New York Times
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