Tag: Ted Alton

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...

Article from NJ.com A popular teacher and Boy Scout leader at a prestigious prep school is believed to have abused at least 27 boys over six years in the mid 1970s, according to an inquiry by an investigative firm commissioned by the Pingry School. The investigation also revealed alleged sexual misconduct by two other teachers,...

“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...

This week, the elite private Pingry School – with campuses in Basking Ridge and Short Hills, New Jersey — issued an open letter to Pingry alumni acknowledging the sexual abuse of minor students during the late 1970s by then-teacher Thad (“Ted”) Alton.  School administrators told alumni they “recently learned from a few of our alumni...