MORRISTOWN — The former spiritual head of the Delbarton School told lawyers investigating the elite prep school that he destroyed a letter accusing a teacher of sexual assault to protect the privacy of the alleged victim.

But Abbot Brian Clarke, who died in 2019, also acknowledged he got rid of the letter knowing it "would be bad for the reputation of the school to have sex abuse associated with it," according to a deposition read in court on Thursday.

Clarke's words were read into the record during the Sept. 25 session at the Morris County Courthouse, as the trial continued against Delbarton and the order of Benedictine Catholic brothers that run the highly rated all-boys school.

The former student, referred to during the trial as T.M., is also suing the adjactent St. Mary's Abbey mo

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