Many have recently read about Larry Lessig's personal and legal struggle against child sexual abuse at the American Boychoir School in Princeton (Larry Lessig's Heroic Courage and Convictions). Lessig has received a lot of support and many are asking "what can I do?" There are a number of things that can be done to reduce the likelihood that this will happen again ('What Can I Do?'):

Even if we win our case, the law in New Jersey would still immunize a charitable institution from "negligence" in the hiring of a teacher. That means if a school hires a teacher without taking any steps to verify the teacher's past -- for example, asking why the teacher was fired from his last job -- the school is immune from liability.