Yale University Releases Report Investigating Eugene Redmond

Published on Tuesday, October 29, 2019 by Staff

Yale University Releases Report Investigating Eugene Redmond

Eugene Redmond – Former Yale Professor – New Haven, CT

For some 44 years — from 1974 until 2018 — Dr. D. Eugene Redmond served on the faculty of the Yale School of Medicine and lived in the New Haven community. A 2019 investigation — its scope limited to former Yale students – concluded that during those 44 years, Redmond had sexually assaulted five students. The report details Redmond’s grooming and predatory behaviors. Disguised by his prominence and standing in the Yale community, Redmond lured and recruited unsuspecting Yale students to St. Kitts where they were preyed upon.

Due to the limited scope of the 2019 investigation, questions remain:

  • How many other Yale students — not contacted by investigators – may have been victimized but are fearful of coming forward?
  • Are there victims who are not Yale students who just learned of the 2019 investigation and, if invited to do so, would have come forward?
  • Are there victims whose abuse could have been prevented if Yale had taken proper action against Redmond in 1994 — some 25 years ago?
  • Are there victims who could have benefitted from counseling and treatment if Yale had taken action and offered them such counseling and treatment free of charge?

The 2019 Investigation

Yale University released an August 14, 2019 report prepared by an outside investigator examining allegations of child sexual abuse leveled against former Yale Professor D. Eugene Redmond. The report was prepared by Connecticut attorney Deirdre Daly. Her investigation focused on three reports of alleged abuse that were perpetrated by Redmond on the Caribbean island of St. Kitts, where Redmond operated a research facility.

Of these three reports was one dating back twenty–five years to 1994. It was made by a group of Yale students whom Redmond recruited to conduct research at his St. Kitts facility. At that time, Yale conducted an internal investigation of the report which resulted in very little action being taken. Though Redmond then represented to Yale that he had terminated the operation of his St. Kitts research facility, the 2019 investigation revealed that he resumed its operations a few years later — continuing to recruit Yale students to travel to St. Kitts to study and conduct research.

Limited Scope of the Investigation

In compiling the 2019 report, investigators attempted to contact all current and former Yale students who worked with Redmond at the St. Kitts facility and all of Redmond’s formed Yale student advisees. Of these, the investigators interviewed 38 former students and concluded that Redmond sexually assaulted five students at his St. Kitts facility.

With such a limited scope, it is likely that given the opportunity, others who may have come forward did not have the opportunity to do so. Other students who were enrolled at Yale during Redmond’s tenure may have come forward. Others — who were not Yale students — may have come forward. In view of the limited scope of Yale’s 2019 investigation, it’s impossible to know if there are other victims.


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