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   Parents at the elite Southbank International school in London   
   were told on Thursday evening that a paedophile American teacher   
   held images of dozens of their children on his computer, some of   
   which showed they had been molested.   
      
   Graham Lacey, the school's head, said that 50 to 60 images had   
   been found on a computer belonging to William Vahey, plunging   
   hundreds of families into an agonising wait to discover if their   
   children are among those pictured.   
      
   Vahey, who taught at the school between 2009 and 2013, killed   
   himself in Minnesota last month, aged 64, after being found at   
   an international school in Nicaragua with 90 images dating from   
   2008 of boys believed to have been abused on school trips.   
      
   The FBI, which has been leading a global investigation, believe   
   he drugged his victims before molesting them so they almost   
   certainly do not know whether they were attacked. When Vahey   
   taught history and geography at the London school, he led   
   several trips abroad.   
      
   "This disclosure, which we learned this morning, left us all   
   appalled," said Lacey in a letter to parents. "As a staff we   
   feel upset, angry and betrayed. We can only imagine what you as   
   parents must feel."   
      
   The school's investigation is focusing on school trips Vahey led   
   to places which parents and former pupils said included Jordan,   
   Venezuela and Nepal. Lists of participating pupils have been   
   passed to Scotland Yard and parents have been asked to come   
   forward if children "recall any disturbing incident".   
      
   The school's chair of governors, Sir Chris Woodhead, a former   
   chief inspector of schools, said the unfolding crisis was "the   
   worst thing that I've ever been involved in 40 years of   
   education".   
      
   Outside the school on Portland Place in Westminster on Thursday,   
   parents were struggling to come to terms with the abuse crisis   
   and said they felt "upset and betrayed".   
      
   Speaking outside Southbank, some wondered how to handle the news   
   that their children may have been molested even if they did not   
   know about it at the time because they were drugged.   
      
   "Even if they find my son in the photos, I would rather not know   
   and just forget about it," said the mother of a child who was in   
   Vahey's class and had gone with him on a field trip.   
      
   Many children had suffered sleepless nights since news of   
   Vahey's abuse began circulating, after the FBI issued an appeal   
   for more information on Tuesday. "He was an incredibly loved   
   teacher and so the kids are feeling conflicted," one mother   
   said. "They were mourning him a few weeks ago. It is horrific;   
   there couldn't be anything worse than what the kids are going   
   through." She added, they are "scared and distraught, can't   
   believe it's true, don't want it to be true".   
      
   There was also frustration among parents at the lack of   
   information from the school. Children were called into a special   
   assembly on Thursday morning, but a meeting for parents will not   
   take place until next Monday. "Every teenage kid who went on   
   those trips is asking: 'Was it me?'" said one mother. "Chances   
   are that some of our kids have been victimised, but we don't   
   know anything."   
      
   Lacey, who runs a school used by many international business   
   people and diplomats, also admitted that concerns had been   
   raised about Vahey's behaviour while he was working there as a   
   geography and history teacher.   
      
   He said there had been one incident relating to Vahey's   
   relationship with children, which was investigated by school   
   management at the time, but both the parents and the child   
   stated they did not want to pursue the matter any further.   
      
   The headteacher added that he has subsequently been told by some   
   parents that "rumours were in fact circulating amongst students   
   and parents", but said they did not reach the school's   
   management. "There are perhaps lessons here to be learned," he   
   said.   
      
   It has now emerged Vahey was jailed for child molestation in   
   California in 1969, but that conviction was not picked up by the   
   school's vetting procedures, which the school insists were   
   extensive and went back over 17 years of his career.   
      
   However, the Guardian has established that senior staff raised   
   the alarm about vetting processes for new teachers three years   
   ago, shortly after Vahey was hired. Woodhead said members of the   
   school's management board complained to him about the   
   "competence and ability" of a staff member with responsibility   
   for vetting. The staff member remains in post, after Woodhead   
   said he found the complaints to be unfounded.   
      
   In 2010, a regulatory report by the Independent Schools   
   Inspectorate warned the school over its hiring procedures – and   
   specifically, according to Woodhead, raised concerns that   
   Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) checks were not kept up to date.   
   The inspectors wrote in their report: "Some aspects of staff   
   recruitment have not been completed properly."   
      
   But the school said it had carried out CRB checks on Vahey and   
   took three references, including two from his previous school in   
   Venezuela and one from a school in Jakarta. He had taught in   
   international schools in eight countries. His CV showed he had   
   been registered as a teacher in the state of New Jersey in 1986,   
   and Woodhead said it was reasonable to have assumed that would   
   not have been the case if he had been convicted of child   
   molestation.   
      
   The school said it has recruited professional counselling   
   services from outside the school to support pupils and staff.   
   "Our immediate priority is to support both students and parents   
   at this very difficult time," said Lacey.   
      
   Vahey's wife, Jean, is a prominent figure in the international   
   schools movement and is executive director of the European   
   Council of International Schools in London. She was   
   superintendent of the Escuela Campo Alegre in Venezuela at the   
   same time as Vahey taught there between 2002 and 2009. The ECIS   
   said on Thursday she was on compassionate leave. There is no   
   suggestion she was involved in any wrongdoing.   
      
   http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/apr/24/paedophile-images-   
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