Institutions chose protecting a donor over protecting the children in their care

Evidence

The recipients of the charitable funds were confronted with legal and moral issues when sexual transgressions occurred in their facilities. Duncroft, a private reform school, is a good case in point. … The school officials felt they had to choose between protecting the children or Savile. He came out the winner. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 556

Categorization

• XREF: The dependency of an institution on a powerful patron forced prioritization of the patron, paralleling the vault’s claims about complicity in harmful systems.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 556