Sex, Lies and Homework: Prep School Confidential

Aug. 23, 2007 — -- Just as classes are set to begin on the leafy campus of Milton Academy, the alma mater of T.S. Eliot and Robert Kennedy, a new book is resurrecting one of the prestigious school's most embarrassing chapters -- and promising to give parents plenty of anxiety.

The school was rocked two years ago when school officials alleged that a 15-year-old female student had performed oral sex on five hockey players in a locker room, in addition to two earlier incidents involving the girl and multiple male partners.

The hockey players were expelled and three of them were eventually charged with rape, although a judge let them off after they apologized to the girl's family. Those three were placed on two years of pretrial probation and ordered to perform 100 hours of community service. The girl was placed on leave but she eventually returned to school to continue her studies.

The high-profile scandal is just one of the shocking tales described in "Restless Virgins," a new book by Milton graduates Abigail Jones and Marissa Miley, who interviewed dozens of students at the school.

By examining the scandal through the eyes of four female students and three male students, the authors reveal new details about the incident and describe a campus culture where some girls are pressured to engage in risky sexual behavior such as group sex and anal sex by guys who keep encouraging them in disturbing ways.

The authors, who graduated from Milton in 1999 and 1998, say that they were shocked to hear about the sexual habits of students at the school, and they wrote the book to answer some of their questions about how young girls could give such performances on command.

Among the incidents described in the book:

The book also alleges several other hockey players knew about the locker-room incident in advance and had already seen cell-phone photos of the 15-year-old girl's sexual acts during an earlier incident.