(The current owners of Bruern Abbey have asked me to clarify that they have no connection with the School, which moved to its current premises in Chesterton many years ago, though retaining its name. Any mention of ‘Bruern’ or ‘Bruern Abbey’ refers, of course, to the school.)

In the late 1980s an American paedophile set up a prep school in Oxfordshire for troubled, autistic and dyslexic boys. He has raped at least one boy - me.

You see the kid in the picture, the only one with an unobscured face? That’s 11-year-old me. The man immediately below me is my rapist.

His name is Sterling Stover and until very recently he was a director of the school’s parent company Bellevue Education. For decades he had ready, unsupervised access to the boys at the school he founded, Bruern Abbey. This continued even after I brought this matter to the attention of the school’s current leadership, who remain in place. Their response has been to lie to me repeatedly, to threaten me with legal action, and using the police to intimidate me.

This website contains information about my abuse and abuser; correspondence with the school and with parents; and links to evidence such as my submission to the Indepedent Inquiry on Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA).

Bruern Abbey School should be a paradise for SEN children who have been failed by the traditional education system. The first priority of any school, however, is safeguarding. This website is intended to help parents assess Bruern’s claims to care about the safety and wellbeing of the children in its chag