Ex-prep school official, Teacher of Year to face sex charges

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A former admissions officer at an elite prep school who went on to become a Teacher of the Year at another school has turned himself in to face allegations he sexually assaulted a teenage boy decades ago.

Arthur Peekel is at least the third staff member this year to be accused of sexual misconduct at Phillips Exeter Academy, a coed school for students in grades 9 to 12.

The Associated Press generally doesn't name people who say they're victims of sexual abuse, but Jenkens said he wanted to discuss his case publicly.

Concerns about sex abuse at Exeter were first raised following revelations in March about former teacher Rick Schubart, who was forced to resign in 2011 after admitting sexual misconduct dating to the 1970s.

The string of abuse claims at Exeter and at several other prep schools in New England, including St. George's School in Rhode Island and St. Paul's in New Hampshire, has raised concerns especially among alumni that schools failed to take allegations seriously in the past or bungled their investigations.