Sex-video scandal rocks 2 tony Chestnut Hill schools
By Martha Woodall Philadelphia Inquirer Staff Writer

Two of the most prestigious private schools in the area are reeling from a sexual scandal that has divided students, faculty and parents.

A senior and a junior at all-male Chestnut Hill Academy secretly videotaped a female student from the nearby Springside School for Girls while she was engaged in what officials have described as "an intimate encounter" with the junior in a bedroom after a party at the senior's home a few weeks ago.

The junior was described as the girl's former boyfriend.

The tape has since been destroyed, but not before it was shown to a dozen CHA students, some of whom left campus during the school day to watch it.

Chestnut Hill Academy convened an administrative committee for a disciplinary review, during which the students and their supporters were permitted to speak. Despite an e-mail campaign on the two students' behalf mounted by many CHA parents, and a brief student sit-in held in the school's chapel, Chestnut Hill Academy expelled the two students last week.

But that's not the end of the matter.

The parents of the senior who videotaped the incident in the family's home have challenged their son's expulsion. He returned to school this week Read more