Yes, it’s personal.
While UConn grabs headlines, will a Michigan college finally remove the admitted child molester on its own music faculty?
The Associated Press reports today that UConn music professor Robert Miller has been put on administrative leave for the alleged sexual abuse of five boys from 1989 to 1992. What’s worse? School employees have known about the allegations for years.
Miller was finally placed on leave last month when higher-ups were told of the claims. Miller has also been accused of providing drugs and having sex with college students.
Yet, in Adrian, Michigan, Adrian College officials have known since 2003 that music professor Thomas Hodgman was the subject of a $1.6 million child molestation lawsuit. As a part of the settlement, Hodgman’s secret personnel documents were made public—including Hodgman’s signed confession saying that he molested the victim in the case, as well as another girl.
Ironically, the settlement was discussed in today’s Los Angeles Times.
So why does UConn get all of the bad press? I believe that a closer look at Adrian College is far overdue.
The recklessness and callousness of Adrian College officials is staggering. I’m confident they’ll eventually be forced to ‘see the light,’ but how many teenagers and young adults will be hurt or endangered until that day comes?