A former teacher at a venerable Massachusetts boarding and day school for girls has been charged with three counts of rape, the Berkshire County District Attorney’s Office announced.
Matthew Rutledge, who had been accused of grooming students for sex during his 30-plus-year career at Miss Hall’s School, was indicted by a grand jury on the strength of testimony from two former students named Hilary Simon and Melissa Fares, the prosecutors said.
Rutledge, 67, was charged nearly two years after Simon and Fares came forward with sexual abuse allegations — and after the DA’s office initially declined to charge the ex-teacher with a crime because the accusers were 16 at the time of the alleged incidents. The age of consent in Massachusetts is 16 and state law does not criminalize sexual relations between teachers and students regardless of age.
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