Staff denied abuse evidence to avoid facing their own moral responsibility

Evidence

Deborah Cogger, another former student at the school, shed some light on how the staff eluded the morality of their inactions. They denied the molestation: “Don’t be wicked, he would never do that” (Lyall & Turner, 2012). — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 558

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Direct supporting evidence for the reader’s mechanism argument on rationalizing complicity with harmful authority figures.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 558