Hotchkiss Boarding School Accused of Covering Up Sexual Abuse

A former student of The Hotchkiss School, a private boarding school in Connecticut for students in ninth through 12th grades, is accusing the school of covering up sexual abuse from teachers for decades in a federal lawsuit.

A former student, under the pseudonym Mark Moe, says the school should have known about widespread abuse against male students by Roy G. Smith Jr., an English teacher and athletic trainer at the school, who taught there from 1970 through 2000.

According to Moe’s proposed class action filed in the US District Court for the District of Connecticut on Monday, the school was ...