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4 former prep school staffers accused of abuse

Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire. Jim Cole / AP

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — An outside investigation into sexual assault allegations at a prestigious New Hampshire prep school has identified four former staff members accused of abuse.

Phillips Exeter Academy said Thursday the abuses involving the four — three teachers and a psychologist — came to light following an investigation over the past several months by Holland & Knight. The allegations of sexually inappropriate behavior involved eight students over a period that spanned from 1966 to the 1980s.

Two of those accused —the psychologists Eldeff Schwaab and teacher George Mangan — have died. The other two have been barred from the Exeter campus and, in the one case, stripped of his faculty emeritus status.

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The four bring to seven the number of former staffers accused of sexual misconduct at the school.