Tag: Pingry Survivors

“The day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” ~ Anais Nin There is no right or wrong way to tell your story, and the telling of it can never be “perfect” because perfect does not exist. As you read the letter...

Article from NJ.com. It’s a good start – but hardly the final word, and probably not enough to forestall a lawsuit. That’s how the alleged victims of the decades-old sex abuse scandal at Pingry School view the just-released report commissioned by the school in response to threat of a lawsuit. The report turned up at least...

Article from USA Today. BERNARDS, N.J. — An investigation conducted for a New Jersey school found that there was “a pervasive problem of child sexual abuse” at the private school in the 1970s. A private firm conducted a nearly yearlong investigation into abuse by former staffers at Pingry School in Basking Ridge, N.J. The school...

“I always knew you would be a survivor.” It was a bizarre statement—coming from my abuser, former Pingry Assistant Principal and convicted pedophile Ted Alton, when I called him on the telephone decades after the abuse. At the time I made that call, I was having a really hard time in life – struggling in...

[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...