Sexual Abuse of Former Solebury School Students Under Investigation

Accusations of sexual abuse of students by faculty are under investigation at Solebury School.

The private boarding school in Solebury, Bucks County acknowledged in an letter, posted to their website, that several alumni recently stepped forward to inform the school that they were subjected to sexual abuse by faculty in the 1950s through 1970s.

Bucks County prosecutors told the Philadelphia Inquirer that they are investigating sexual abuse claims at the school that occurred over six decades and as recently as the 2000s. According to the Inquirer, two alleged victims said school officials had ignored their accusations years ago.

“On behalf of Solebury School and our Board of Trustees, we offer our public acknowledgment of this abuse and our sincere apologies, most especially to those directly affected, but also to all who care deeply about this community. We are profoundly disturbed by these transgressions of the past and their long-term impacts on our former students and alumni,” the school said in the public letter.

“Solebury’s ideal of a close and collaborative relationship between teacher and student is an important part of our approach to education. However, we will not permit that ideal to be used as a proxy or a justification for an inappropriate sexual relationship between an adult and a student at Solebury School. Not in the past. Not now. Not in the future. “