All we have is the testimony of the student athletes themselves, all of whom received counseling following their unanimous expression of "irreconcilable differences with their coach".
Ms. Hayner's findings and the testimony of other students and parents left the board unswayed.
Since his death in 1999, his legacy has been burnished by some posthumous live recordings and, no less effectively, by the continuing testimony of his students, several generations of whom he mentored in music schools across the Northeast.
Particularly moving was the testimony of many students, some of them recent graduates, who eloquently pleaded with the administration, saying that after they had been rejected or discarded elsewhere, teachers and administrators at these schools had literally saved their lives.
Sergeant Burke said the charges against Mr. Weisberg were based on the testimony of his former student and sexual partner, now a 21-year-old resident of the Hollis Hill section of Queens, who presented herself to Queens detectives in early January.
The value of peer-to-peer recommendation and alumni advocacy is now, more than ever, of paramount importance, as outlined in a recent Guardian roundtable on university branding where experts agreed on the value of "student testimony in marketing material".
The report is based in part on old church records of unreported abuse cases and in part on the anonymous testimony of 1,060 former students from a variety of 216 mostly church-run institutions, including reformatories and so-called industrial schools, set up to tend to neglected, orphaned or abandoned children.
It is also essential to hear the stories and testimonies of these students.
The measure was backed in testimony by dozens of students from systems that would benefit: University of California, California State University and California Community Colleges.
Mr. Richmond mainly faced the testimony of Evan Westlake, another student, who said Mr. Richmond had used his fingers to penetrate the girl while she lay in the basement.
