Seventy years. That is the span an independent investigation now attributes to the sexual abuse of children at one of America's most prestigious arts schools, a boarding institution that trained generations of musicians, dancers and actors while, according to its own commissioned report, failing to protect them from the adults in its care.
The Interlochen Center for the Arts in northern Michigan released a 97-page external review this week documenting roughly 70 firsthand accounts of sexual misconduct involving 47 adults affiliated with the school between the 1950s and the 2010s.
