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Former students of an elite all-girls boarding school in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, engulfed in a sexual abuse scandal testified in support of a bill aimed at bolstering age of consent laws at a State House hearing Tuesday. A warning to listeners, this story includes descriptions of sexual assault.
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Berkshire County elected officials are part of a legislative effort in Massachusetts to crack down on sexual exploitation and grooming of young people under the care of adults.
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Berkshire County officials will promote new legislation aimed at protecting students from sexual predation in schools on a virtual press conference Monday. It comes after a number of troubling allegations emerged from local schools.
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The Pittsfield, Massachusetts city council and school committee heard a presentation from a child sex abuse prevention group at a special meeting Wednesday night.
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From school sex abuse scandals to wildfires and vice-presidential visits, it was a busy year in Berkshire County headlines.
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The Berkshire District Attorney’s Office says it found no criminal conduct after investigating allegations of sexual abuse leveled against a former teacher at the private Miss Hall’s School in Pittsfield.
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A woman who, along with fellow former students, leveled accusations against a boarding school in Massachusetts earlier this year has filed a lawsuit seeking monetary damages from the private institution and former staff members.
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WAMC News has learned that a Pittsfield, Massachusetts private school enmeshed in a sex abuse scandal has fired a teacher over what it describes as “unacceptable use of the school’s technology resources.”
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A longtime senior staffer at a Pittsfield, Massachusetts private boarding school in the midst of a sex abuse scandal has resigned
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The Berkshire District Attorney has appointed a special investigator to look into a sexual abuse scandal that erupted at a Pittsfield, Massachusetts boarding school this spring.