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’90 sex abuse suit at Beverly school kept secret

Case at Landmark settled and sealed

For two decades, Curtis H. Bryant has been a respected figure in the town of Rowley: director of the Youth Baseball and Softball League, parent leader in a high school student enrichment program, treasurer of the Democratic Town Committee, and a Planning Board member.

Yet according to court documents unsealed last week, ­Bryant is also an accused child molester. He was charged in a 1990 lawsuit with repeated and forcible sexual abuse of a teenage boy for three years at the Landmark School in ­Beverly, where Bryant was a science teacher. The private boarding school quietly pushed Bryant out in 1991, then settled the suit for an ­undisclosed sum.

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Very well done story.

One nit: People do not "decline comment." Makes no sense. (No thanks, I'll not have any of your comment.) But they do decline to comment.

Wow.  That really relivant and on point.  Thanks for yout Nit.  Wit.