Rosie DiManno: Media are not the enemy in the St. Michael`s sex assault scandal
(The Star Toronto Raptors)

Doce me bonitatem et disciplinam et scientiam.Teach me goodness, discipline and knowledge.That’s the motto of St. Michael’s College School. The academy’s website further explains why goodness and discipline are placed ahead of knowledge: because goodness and discipline are “indispensable prerequisites if the search for knowledge is worthwhile.”Such fine ideals. And I don’t dispute that tens of thousands of students St. Michael’s has graduated over the past 166 years had a solid foundation in all three realms when they passed out into the larger world beyond campus. It’s an esteemed all-boys private school.The search for knowledge — understanding — is what the school is seeking now as it looks deeper into its own culture, what wasn’t seen or may have been disregarded that led to at least eight students expelled and half a dozen charged, boy-on-boy cruelties of criminal severity, including assault, gang sexual assault and sexual assault with a weapon.Administrators were misguided, failing in their duty of care to students, in how they originally handled the scandal — a term that minimizes the events — by waiting a day and a half to turn over to police a video that showed a boy apparently being sexually assaulted with a broom handle, by which time police had already been informed by media which had also come into possession of a video now deemed child pornography.Read more: Opinion | Heather Mallick: St. Michael’s victim should come first, not the school St. Michael’s College School president and principal resign in wake of sexual assault scandalThe double-edged sword of how social media spread the St. Mike’s scandalWe have only the principal’s word that he had always intended to give that video to police, the lag a result of trying to contact the alleged victim’s parents. This was 48 hours after the school learned of a different video which had been circulat ...