If you have any information about where RND worked and lived between 1966 and 1974, please let us know. We do know he taught at Nobles and Brimmer & May in the late Sixties and also at the Indian Mountain School sometime during that period. But some of the details are fuzzy. Your help in generating clarity would be most welcome.
The statute of limitations for aggravated sexual assault and battery - the crime for which RND would be charged now - during the mid-Sixties was six years. Once the perpetrator leaves the state, however, that clock stops. If it can be shown that RND had left Massachusetts within six years, then the authorities can proceed. While they are conducting their own investigation now, any information you may have would be most welcome.
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I know that R. Neville Davis was at the Harvey School in New York at some point in the early 60s. Can get the dates, but do not have them at hand just now.
Can someone help me put together a timeline of where he was and when?
Also, does anyone know his wherabouts at this time? Is he still living?
Hi Sam,
RND is still alive and living in Ridgefield, CT. He's in his 70s.
As you've seen, he taught at Park School in Brookline, MA during the mid-Sixties. We are trying put a timeline together of his activity after that.
I should have said in my previous post that he did his dirty deeds while at Harvey, too.
That's Park and Harvey. Likely Nobles and Indian Mountain School. He got around - to schools and to a lot of us.
Back then, it was common practice, it appears, just to move these guys on. "If you leave now, we'll not make this public, etc." Meanwhile, the kids fall through the cracks.
I'm sorry if you were affected.
I'm sure the number of us who were abused is staggering. While three of us at Park have come forward, we know of at least one other and have strong suspicions regarding two or three more. And he was there for just two years.
Sigh. While it was a long time ago, the echos still ring in my heart.
Wishing you well, Sam.
George,
A few thoughts that I've put together after reading notes on this site.
This is what is appears his travels have been:
1. Harvey School, Katonah, New York – 1961-ish – there for 2 or 3 years - might have been there before 1961, but I don't know.
2. Park School, Brookline, MA – mid 1960s - any specifics about the years?
3. Brimmer & May, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts - in the late 1960s
4. Indian Mountain School, Lakeville, CT - sometime during that same period.
5. Nobles, Dedham, MA - fall of 1972 until sometime midway into the 1973 school year. He apparently left abruptly.
6. Did someone mention Dexter Academy in Brookline, MA?
7. RND is still alive and living in Ridgefield, CT. He's in his 70s.
George, does anyone have any specific years or ranges or years where he was anywhere (other than nid-60s?) I'm thinking that Harvey may have been his first, or nearly his first, teaching position.
The Brookline Police have been working on a timeline based on my account of what happened to me. I gather RND has been living in CT for many years. I don't have any picture of where he has been since the early 70's.
I am a french man aged 48 and I can tell you that I am not the only french boy who was abused by RND. This happened in different parts of France between 74 and 76, where RND loved to spend his holidays....
Michel
Good afternoon,
I am writing from France. It looks like the person you are talking about in your comments was spending his summer holidays in France invited in summer camps. This happened in the 70s. I was around 10/12 I guess as I am 48 now.
Davis was at The Harvey School when I was there between 1959 and 1962. He liked to take small groups of boys on ski trips, as others have reported. After one such trip I reported moderately salacious behavior on his part to my parents (he took polaroids of our bare bottoms, which we thought was very funny), and subsequently was never allowed to go on trips with him again. My parents understood, and I think I had an inkling of, what was going on.
Even then he told us stories of his summer holidays in France and the boys he interacted with.
I was never abused by him, but my late younger brother claimed to have been. He was certainly grooming both of us on those ski trips, and I guess my brother was more vulnerable. He certainly had a difficult emotional life afterwards, although I cannot specifically blame that on what might have happened between him and Davis.
Bob Cabot at indiAn my school abused many of us in1950s
Hello,
I'm french, aged 50. I'm not the same person (anonymous) who wrote in 2012, even we have the same age. RND spent summer holidays of 78 and 79 in the south west of France. I've also heard of a boy in the area of Cholet, city of Maine-et-Loire district.
I am so saddened for all of you, but relieved to finally have an answer to questions I have had about my ex-husband, who attended park school & nobles during these times. All therapists & psychiatrists have asked if Sam (diff than the Sam who posted this) had been abused. A couple of his brothers also appeared to have psyche issues, & this seems the answer. I have searched for an answer for 17 years myself. Thank you for helping me answer this haunting question. I hope to learn more.
I just wanted to pass on this information that Mr. Davis died the other day july 20th 2018 at his home in Ridgefield CT.
Thank you George for starting this conversation. I'll post this in two parts:
My family had a long association with Neville Davis from 1960-late 70s and can describe some of his movements during those years. Perhaps this will help with others' exposure to him by providing context and a timeline. Regarding the query about Portugal, he was definitely a resident. I know that he had what he described as a “villa" for several years near Lisbon because my sister visited him there in 1963. In the 60s, he was considered a very attractive social personality who was active in the social life of many families, Harvey School related and others. He was from Ridgefield, CT and was a mama’s boy. I believe his well off mother supported him partially throughout his life with a trust fund. She was somehow related to Jackie Kennedy through the Lee family. This gave Neville a lot of social panache in those days combined with his charm. I believe that he used teaching and monetizing his travels as a way to supplement his income and as a way to spot and groom victims.
Neville befriended my family when he was my brother's teacher at Harvey School starting in 1960. My brother was 12 and I was 5. I believe ingratiating himself with the families was a way to assess his target’s weaknesses by observing their family dynamic. It was also a way to earn the trust of the families so that he could take his target away on a solo trips. He had a very cool for kids black VW bug to take you away in. I know my brother was abused by him and probably myself though I have likely suppressed memories of sexual contact from the age of 10-16. My brother and I have had depression throughout our lives.
Below is timeline of Neville’s activities related me, my sister, my brother, my parents 1960-late 70s
Harvey School 1960 -63?
My brother graduated 8th grade in 1962, I graduated 1969. I did not have him as a teacher at Harvey 1965-69. There was another pedophile teacher at Harvey who was fired during my time there, a Mr. Dana. He was the dorm master for the boarding students and photographing those students in the nude. A brave kid got into his quarters, retrieved some photos and brought them to the headmaster.
1963 to late 60s?
Neville chaperoned summer “debutante” trips for girls (my sister included) from his base in Portugal through Europe. He supported his travels with these tours. The families all trusted him with their daughters. I believe my parents thought that he was gay and that their daughters were safe with him. This was unsaid at the time. Probably, the girls were attracting young men across Europe during these tours which may have been appealing to him.
Sometime during 1963-64
Was a manager of a hotel in Murren, Switzerland. He spoke fluent French and must have had decent German.
1965
Took my brother on a trip to Europe for a couple of months. I met them both in Switzerland for a night or two while traveling separately with my parents. I was 9. We stayed at his hotel in Murren (he was no longer working there). My brother seemed angry (he was 16). Neville was annoyed at his snoring meaning they shared the same room during their travels. I think Neville switched off his victims at age 16 because they weren’t as malleable. I remember vaguely that my sisters told me much later that my father had warned Neville to behave himself before this trip in regard to my brother. Not sure if that is accurate. My father was a sucker for Neville's BS.
1965
He attended my sister’s wedding in Bedford, NY. I may be able to locate a photo of him if it helps anyone identify him.
part 2
1966-? - was this his second stint there?
Teacher at the Park School, Brookline. I visited him at his home in Brookline alone when I was 10 for a long weekend. I traveled up alone from Bedford, NY by train. My parents must have been nuts. This was after the Europe meeting and I suspect his loss of interest in my brother. Don’t remember much other than the science museum, the auto museum and lunch at the Ritz cafe where he seemed know everyone. This is also when I became aware that he had a strong photography interest and a very fancy Hasselblad camera. I went to the photo store on Boylston Street with him where he was well known customer.
1968
I was 12 and visited him alone at Martha’s Vineyard at his mother’s house on State Beach, West Tisbury? All I remember is that someone drowned off shore in the night and dreading the body washing up by the house
later 1968-69
Don’t remember interacting with him. Did know that he had relocated to Dedham, MA and was teaching at a private school there. Thought it was Dedham Country Day which would have had younger kids. (Nobles- perhaps that was later?)
1969 - 72
I was a boarding student at St. Mark’s School in Southborough, MA, not far from Dedham. He started inviting me and a friend over on the weekends to ”escape the prison and get some decent food”. I stayed overnight there a couple of times and visited by day a few other times. Basically, we were free labor to help with his home renovations to build a darkroom for photography. My friend and I were also photography enthusiasts- common at that time- so this seemed cool.
I believe the darkroom was bait for his pupils to come over and be isolated from oversight. My friend thought he was weird and exploiting us for work so he stopped visiting with me. I was more tied in and willing to give him some slack. One of his main tools was that he would give you the attention that you didn’t get at home. Often this was shown by photographing you as means of "acknowledging your worth". I don’t remember any nude photos, but who knows since i have suppressed my memories. My friend and I were amused on one trip that he had laid out Playboy magazines for us to see. I supposed he thought he could get us excited. He also claimed that he had a mysterious German girlfriend “Trixie” that no one ever met. My feeling at this time was that his whole act was starting to crumble.
Summer 72
Another monetized “chaperone” trip by Neville. I was 16 and spent 6 weeks with him at a photography school in South Woodstock, VT- Doscher School of Photography. We stayed 2-3 weeks in a tent and the remainder at a borrowed friends house (they were not there). This is where I finally fell out with him. He was bickering with me in a kind of peer level, infantile way. I was 16 and had reached the age where I had no respect for him. This was accentuated by the times. 16 also seemed to be his cut off for victims. I had also made friends at the photography school which seemed to annoy him.
Mid to late 70s
St. Barts. He started going there early before it blew up into what it is now. It was quite primitive, no amenities other than a Rockefeller resort at one end of the island. He rented a “villa” there for several winters. He invited my parents twice. This was to offset his expenses as his “guests”. I suspect he did this with other friends to underwrite his costs. On their trips, they were disgusted that he had young boys hanging around constantly and that they were his primary focus. He spoke French and might have had a pool so that was a lure for the local kids. Similar to what he was up to in Europe during his travels. This was the end of my parents relationship with him. The facade was gone. After this period, I know that he moved back to Ridgefield, CT and built a house on his mother’s property.
2002
My father called him in Ridgefield and left a message to inform of my mother’s death. He did not reply.
Happy to respond to replies if you have questions. May be able to find a photo of him if it helps someone to identify him
I posted a timeline of his movements yesterday that may help. Just found this blog
My family rented a house from this man in Ridgefield, CT, on Nod Hill Rd around the year 2000, my brothers and I were young we must have been of the ages 6 and 10. Unfortunately, I can remember him touching me and my younger brother in inappropriate ways, although I didn't know what was happening at the time. I am in total shock to find this website about him. It makes me so sad that this bastard got away with these horrible acts for so long. It seems that he died in 2018, so I don't think there any legal recourse that I can take, but I wanted to share.
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