Citadel Pulled A Penn State, Did Nothing About Child Sex Abuse Allegations
LatestJust a week after it was revealed that Penn State officials were told coach Jerry Sandusky’s was abusing boys and chose to do nothing, another school admitted that it failed to report child abuse. Now the Citadel says it regrets not telling police about allegations made against one of its graduates who has now been charged with sexually abusing five boys. Luckily for the military college, the story isn’t getting as much play in the national media, possibly because it doesn’t involve a beloved football coach.
CNN reports that in 2007, a former camper at the Citadel Summer Camp in South Carolina told school officials that five years earlier, camp counselor Louis Neal “Skip” ReVille had invited him and another boy into his room to watch porn. The boy, who was 14 at the time, says the three masturbated together but didn’t touch each other. At the time ReVille was a well-respected cadet, and after an internal investigation failed to turn up any other complaints, the Citadel abandoned the issue without ever telling police about the alleged abuse. ReVille graduated in 2002 and went on to have contact with hundreds of children as a coach, educator, and father of triplets. Last month he was arrested for allegedly assaulting five boys, and based on what he’s confessed to the police, it’s believed that at least six more charges will be filed.