Multibillion-Dollar Private School Pays $80 Million for Covering Up Years of Child Abuse

Multibillion-Dollar Private School Pays $80 Million for Covering Up Years of Child Abuse
A statue of King Kamehameha I in Honolulu, Hawaii. Balazs Barnucz/Wikimedia Commons
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A lavish private school serving often poor children of Hawaiian ancestry has agreed to pay $80 million to settle a lawsuit to 32 victims of 27 years of sexual abuse, which school officials covered up.

Kamehameha School in Honolulu, Hawaii, is valued at $11 billion, the Washington Post reported. It is named after the Hawaiian king who unified the islands and then they were endowed by the king’s last living relative. The school has been in operation since 1887.