Category: Pingry Survivors’ News

  NOTE:  The following is a reflection written by the wife of one of the Pingry Survivors.   Dear Current Pingry Leadership, It’s time for change. March 28, 2016, was the day the “open letter” from The Pingry School was sent to Pingry alumni.  Ever since that date, I have been consumed day and night...

[One of the Pingry Survivors recently wrote this reflection about what it means to come forward about child sexual abuse he suffered as a student at The Pingry School.] “Reading Aloud” by A Pingry Survivor “The day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took...

Dear Pingry Community: We are writing this letter to introduce ourselves (the “Pingry Survivors”) to you – former students, their parents, and all other people who care about The Pingry School (“the Pingry Community”). Pingry Survivors is currently a group of twelve men who were sexually victimized while we were children at the Pingry School...

Article from NJ.com They were called “Ted’s kids,” or more mockingly, “Teddy’s little boys.” “Ted,” or Thad P. Alton Jr., was a constant presence in their lives: a teacher at The Pingry School in Short Hills; their Boy Scout troop leader; and their counselor at the Maine camp where they summered. That gave Alton nearly unlimited...

Article from The New York Times BOSTON — Phillips Exeter Academy, an elite New Hampshire boarding school whose prominent graduates include Daniel Webster and Mark Zuckerberg, disclosed last month that it had forced out a popular teacher in 2011 because of sexual misconduct in the 1970s and ’80s. The school’s delayed announcement — officials said...

Article from NJ.com A typical child sexual abuse case. That’s how the allegations against former Pingry School teacher and coach Thad Alton are playing out. One alleged victim comes forward. Then another. Then a couple of more. And then more alleged victims — who suffered in silent shame thinking they were the only ones — become...

Article from NJ.com The former Pingry teacher at the center of the school’s investigation of possible sexual abuse was convicted in 1980 in New Jersey of three counts of lewdness stemming from games of strip poker played with 12-year-old boys, according to a court document. Thad “Ted” P. Alton, Jr. worked at Pingry or an earlier...

Article from CBS New York BASKING RIDGE, N.J. (CBSNewYork) — A former teacher at the center of a New Jersey prep school’s investigation of possible sex abuse was convicted more than once of sexual conduct with minor boys, reports said Friday. As WCBS 880’s Kelly Waldron reported, Thad P. “Ted” Alton Jr., 69, is a...

Article from Basking Ridge Patch The school denies they had any knowledge of the claims against a former educator accused of sexual abuse. Basking Ridge, NJ — Former Pingry School officials knew of sexual abuse allegations made against an educator who this week was accused of similar crimes against several alumni students, an attorney representing...

Article from Morris News Bee Also later worked at the Peck School in Morristown BERNARDS TWP. – Officials at The Pingry School in Liberty Corner and at the private grades K-8 Peck School in Morristown are investigating allegations that a former employee who served time in prison for sexual abuse of boys may have also...