A dozen more alumni from the McDonogh School have sued the private institution for gross negligence in its handling of sexually abusive staff members between the 1960s and 1980s — including two educators who’ve never been accused in Maryland court.

The complaint, filed Monday in Baltimore County, names four faculty members and says “minimal diligence” would have been enough for the Owings Mills school to discover the abuse.

Instead, it argues that McDonogh “did nothing to stop them.”

Monday’s lawsuit is the second filed against McDonogh this month and the fifth since Maryland’s Child Victims Act became law in 2023. Signed off by Gov. Wes Moore days after an expansive report outlined decades of assaults within Baltimore’s archdiocese, the bill removed the state’s statute of limitations on child sex abuse claims.

The 12 men filing this latest complaint attended the preparatory school between 1964 and 1988, according to the lawsuit. Five live in Maryland or Washington, D.C., while the rest have moved to other parts of the country: from Delaware and Pennsylvania to Missouri, Florida and Arizona.

Most of the alleged attacks involve former dean Alvin J. Levy and a Spanish teacher named Robert Creed, who’ve both been the subject of other claims against the school. But Monday’s complaint also names two staff members who, to this point, haven’t been accused in lawsuits related to McDonogh’s scandal: Josette McMillan and English teacher Bart Harrison.

McMillan’s position and tenure at McDonogh was not clear on Tuesday, and the school’s communications team did not respond to questions about her career. But Harrison’s legacy at the school was honored as recently as last year, during McDonogh’s annual Dedication Day Ceremony.

According to a since-deleted press release, Harrison’s “eccentric, colorful” personality and 37-year career were built into the program to challenge students to remember and appreciate the teachers they’ll remember for the rest of their lives.

“We are so lucky to have a campus full of dedicated people like Mr. Barton Harrison,” the school’s director of spiritual and ceremonial services said.

Harrison died from a heart attack in 1989, 15 years after his retirement, according to his obituary. Public records or newspaper clips on McMillan or her time at McDonogh could not be found.

The nature of the alleged abuse was not specified in court documents, but Harrison was accused of misconduct by two former students in the lawsuit, while McMillan was named by one.

In a statement, McDonogh spokesperson Brooke Blumberg said the school was aware of Monday’s lawsuit and “committed to fostering a community where students and adults feel comfortable identifying and reporting sexual abuse.”

“We take all allegations very seriously and remain steadfast in our support for survivors while complying with applicable laws,” Blumberg said.

In 2019, McDonogh paid for New York-based firm T&M Protection Resources to investigate any history of sexual abuse at the school. It eventually found evidence that five staff members had allegedly assaulted two dozen students over several decades, including Levy and Creed.

The other three educators referenced in the report were not named. McDonogh’s communications team did not respond to a question on Tuesday about whether Harrison and McMillan were two of them.

Each case brought against McDonogh accuses the school of failing to protect its students against a pattern and climate of abuse.

The majority of complaints have involved Levy, who was indicted in 1992 on sexual abuse charges but died before his scheduled trial. And Monday’s is the third to name Creed, who pleaded guilty in 1985 to a fourth-degree sexual offense and abuse of a minor. He has since died.

At least one lawsuit, filed March 11 in the U.S. District Court for Maryland, argues the school knew of Levy’s potential for harm, but “did not do the most obvious thing it could have and should have done: remove him from the school.”

“Instead of cutting the cancer out, the school, board members, administrators, and teachers, chose — and it was a choice — silence and inaction,” the lawsuit says.

Between the five lawsuits, if found to be at fault, the McDonogh School could be required to pay well over a million dollars in damages.

Monday’s complaint includes a monetary figure in excess of $75,000 for each of the 12 defendants — the highest specific amount that can be listed in a Maryland civil suit.

The Child Victims Act allows for a cap of $1.5 million with claims against private entities.

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