The Choate Rosemary Hall private school in Wallingford, Connecticut, where prominent figures such as former President John F. Kennedy, actor Michael Douglas and first daughter Ivanka Trump studied, admitted more than four decades of sexual abuse by teachers to their students.
Costa Rica is widely included in the report of abuses because some of the abuses against the students occurred during a trip to this country.
According to the Washington Post, the school did not act when in 1999, a 17-year-old student reported that she was raped by Spanish teacher Jaime Rivera Murillo at a pool in Costa Rica.
According to the newspaper, a male classmate tried to separate the teacher from the student without success.
The Choate report also reveals that in that same trip to Costa Rica, Rivera Murillo sexually abused another 15-year-old child, after drinking too much.
Although the report does not specify exactly where the abuses took place, it does indicate that the events occurred between October 8th and 9th, 1999.
Despite the fact that students reported the events on October 9th, the school did not take action.
Shortly thereafter, Rivera Murillo was fired from Choate Rosemary Hall for a “just cause”, but went to work in other schools in the area. Transcending the allegations against him a few days ago, Rivera Murillo resigned as director of the Wamogo Regional High School in the community of Litchfield, also in Connecticut.
The Choate Rosemary Hall School -with a current tuition of $43,500- unveiled the extensive report on sexual misconduct by 12 former teachers against students between 1963 and 2010.
The school commissioned an internal investigation after the accusations came to light and the alarming increase in information from other schools.
Choate representatives said they corroborated the abuses occurred in 1960, although most took place in the 1980s against both men and women. There were also a handful of reports of sexual misconduct in the first decade of 2000.
Our interviews and records showed that sometimes the school acted quickly and decisively. In other cases, it was slower to respond and allowed the teachers to remain in school,”
said the report.