Comment on Portsmouth Abbey School names sex abusers from 1959 to early 80s, offers apologies, therapy

PORTSMOUTH, R.I. — Leaders of the Portsmouth Abbey School and Monastery have released a report that contains "shameful news" of "credible allegations of sexual abuse" between 1959 and the early 1980s, and of corporal punishment in the '60s and '70s.A letter emailed Wednesday to members of the Portsmouth Abbey community contained an apology to the victims of Father Bede Gorman, who died in 1985, and Father Geoffrey Chase, who is in his late 80s and is ill.