School officials at the prestigious Park Tudor private school have cancelled classes and extracurricular activities today following this weekend's news that the school's headmaster, Dr. Matthew Miller, had taken his own life. Dr. Miller's death came just days after he was reportedly interviewed by a law enforcement task force investigating allegations of child pornography and child exploitation involving a former school official. One source says law enforcement seized a laptop computer used by Dr. Miller during its interview with him on Thursday.
The story began last December when the school's highly-successful basketball coach, Kyle Cox, resigned abruptly after two back-to-back state title championships for an undisclosed reason. It would not be until weeks later that the special task force responsible for investigating crimes against children would descend on the campus to execute search warrants. Unconfirmed rumors surfaced that someone associated with the school may have attempted to scrub material from the school's computer hard drives.
The Park Tudor scandal comes on the heels of the investigation that snared former Subway spokesman Jared Fogle and the former executive director of his nonprofit foundation, Russell Taylor. Fogle was sentenced to 15.6 years in prison for possession of child pornography and having sex with at least two female minors as part of a plea agreement in the federal court for the Southern District of Indiana. In December, Taylor was sentenced to 27 years in prison as part of his plea agreement for a dozen counts of producing and distributing child pornography. He sentence could have been more severe but for his cooperation in the ongoing investigation.
There now seems to be some belief that the investigation at Park Tudor didn't happen by chance; rather, it was an outgrowth of the investigation that began with Russell Taylor. Interestingly, Taylor has more recently been tied to an international spice drug trafficking ring based in Indianapolis that involved several area residents, including two former Hendricks County deputy sheriffs, Jason and Teresa Woods, and a fundamentalist minister, Robert Jaynes. Another local businessman, Doug Sloan, who once ran for the state senate seat now held by Sen. Jim Merritt as a Libertarian, has been indicted for his role in the drug ring as well. Taylor, formerly of Mooresville, was reportedly friends with both Jaynes and the Woods.
An interesting aspect of the Taylor-Fogle relationship were reports the two and a group of other men who reportedly hung out together in Broad Ripple frequently took sex tours to Thailand where a little money is all it takes for pedophiles to find available children with whom to have sex. Whether any officials of Park Tudor might be tied to Taylor or Fogle remains to be seen, but it's a thought that has crossed many people's minds over the past few days. Some are even beginning to worry whether Indianapolis has a scandal as big as the Penn State/Jerry Sandusky pedophile ring.
UPDATE: The Marion Co. Coroner's Office officially ruled the cause of Dr. Miller's death as a suicide by hanging.
16 comments:
No surprises with this story. I'm sure the corrupt powers-that-be are circling the wagons to protect their own. I'm also not surprised by the lame reporting by the Indy Star in connection to this story.
I'd be surprised to see Fogle-style stuff at Park Tudor. It's much harder to exploit rich kids. Rich kids typically don't need anything from people at schools. At Park Tudor, many of those kids could buy and sell the entire administration.
I wonder just how far down the rabbit hole this whole sordid thing goes. It would appear that Park Tudor is a virtual flesh pit of perversion living in the unseemly world of the Dark Web. One can't help but think that the parents of kids going to school there are absolutely beside themselves right now. Given the nature of the crimes going on there it is going to be impossible to keep the lid from getting blown it regardless of how the local media try to brush it under the rug.
Anon 10:28 The Indy Star reporting is indeed bizarre. It's almost as if...naw, couldn't be. Then again, maybe it is. The deviates that run this town are obsessed with sex and booze. If I'm not being inundated with gay-this and gay-that, it's kiddie porn and out of town businessmen here for a good time being killed in our local watering holes. What a cesspool this city has become. Ya reap what you sow, boys and girls, you surely do.
Anon 11:13 - I never suggested "Fogle-style stuff at Park Tudor." However, I think Fogle and Taylor were part of a wider "ring" of self-important types who might have been/be leading double lives. Add this story to the sick Fogle-Taylor saga, and I think the surface is only being scratched a little. Nothing would surprise me if this leads to further allegations of political, business, cultural and other elites exploiting children - similar to those being investigated in the United Kingdom. But, that would require leadership from prosecutors, journalists, and others - something this city and state lack desperately.
11:13, Sadly you are incorrect in your assumption about sexual abuse and child porn at elite private schools. I would not have believed it myself until I did a Google search only to find literally hundreds of sex abuse cases in elite private schools all over the country. In fact, it would appear that there is more of this type abuse in these private schools than in the public schools and I'm not altogether sure why this is.
Gary, I really hope you and the local blogosphere will continue to keep this story alive and continue to research and dig. Unfortunately, I think there is a huge story to all of this, and it won't get reported or investigated by the local media or law enforcement. This could be the crack that brings down the entire Indy/Indiana political and corporate structure and their twisted relationships.
doubtless this goes all e way to the White House...
Hey, leave the gays out of this. This is all heteros run amok. Republican, white, heterosexual pedophiles. Your children are not being corrupted by gays. The danger comes from heterosexual coaches, teachers and kiddie porn dealers. I repeat. Its not the gays. Its the straight guys. The gay guys already have great sex lives. Its the ridiculously repressed straight guys that are the perverts. Their wives are unattractive, fat and sexless, so the guys get into porn. What do you think those man caves are about. But you've got to love the hypocrisy. Something about not throwing stones. Its not like pedophilia/porn is a commandment or anything, is it straight guys?
Anon 1:55: No one ever said this would go to the White House, but it probably impacts some rather high-profile elites in Indianapolis and around the state.
Anon 2:08: You hit the nail-on-the-head. This is definitely a white, heterosexual, (traditionalist-type), Christian, male phenomenon. There is plenty of research to support this.
ah, the President of Ball State just resigned
1:50, any chance this ball of twine uravels Mitch Daniels? That guy has always struck me as squirrely.
1:46, I've been on the campus of Park Tudor for this and that, over the years. The young women who attend there are on their way to being very attractive women, and they're obviously born very wealthy. I can't imagine any of those girls doing anything really stupid with their bodies.
Peeping through the shower stall is one thing, but I can't see Park Tudor girls willingly doing dumb things.
But, the movie "American Beauty" was made for a reason. Who knows?
Anon 2:08 pm
It's nice that you can stereotype yourself into a comfortable existence of always "knowing" the type, sexual preference, political affiliation and race of the perverts of the world. As for me, I'm convinced they usually drive Toyotas.
One thing that is striking,there doesn't seem to be a visible division between parents with regards to former coach Cox. As successful as the team has been there seems to be no support for the coach. If this had happened at any number of our township schools there would be a visible and vehement support for the coach from one faction of the parents--even if the allegations have been proven to be true. It's the mantra "Gotta win at all costs" even if our coach is a kiddie diddler. I've got to hand it to the parents of the kids at Park Tudor.
Plus,I think the folks sending their kids to Park Tudor have much better finely tuned BS detectors than most of the people sending their kids to the township schools.
Speaking of American Beauty,I knew a real off screen persona matching every persona within the film. Every one. Yes,even the closeted former Marine. This was in Eagledale in the 1960's. You know,when the world was a "supposedly" safer and better place. The halcyon days of America.
Whoa, 2:08:
You're suggesting that white, Christian, heterosexual male are justified in availing themselves of child prostitutes in Thailand (or elsewhere) and revel in kiddie porn in their "man caves" because "their wives are unattractive, fat and sexless"?
What happened to personal responsibility?
What a crock!
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