St. Albans Launches Sexual Misconduct Investigation

GEORGETOWN, DC — An all-boys private school in Washington, D.C., has launched a sexual misconduct investigation after a former teacher was accused of having inappropriate relationships with female students at an Annapolis school.

The revelation comes roughly a week after officials at Key School, in Annapolis, released a report that acknowledged several teachers had sexual relationships with students in the 1970s through the 1990s. One of the teachers identified in the probe was Vaughan Keith.

Keith taught at St. Albans in the 1980s, but had taught English and foreign languages at Key School in the late-1970s. He was let go from the Annapolis school after a parent saw him holding hands with a student, according to the Capital Gazette. He died at the age of 40 in 1990.

Jason F. Robinson, the headmaster at St. Albans, told the newspaper he learned of Keith's misconduct at Key in August. So far, there has been no evidence that Keith engaged in improper behavior with students while he was on the faculty at St. Albans, but there have been "firsthand accounts of inappropriate behavior and sexual misconduct by former St. Albans teachers," Robinson said.

The full Key School report is being shared here. It is also available on the investigation webpage, keyschool.org/investigation.

No allegations of misconduct against any current member of the Key faculty, staff, or administration have been made, investigators said.

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