Opening BB&N Minds

In December 1987, after 23 years at BB&N, Edward "Ted" Washburn pled guilty to charges of rape in Middlesex Superior Court.

Washburn is a graduate of Harvard College, '64 and participated in the 1964 Olympics.  That same year, he started coaching crew at Harvard, according to the book Mind Over Water.  Washburn had been teaching English at Buckingham Browne and Nichols for almost twenty years when he pleaded guilty. 

According to a letter from the CEO of the non-profit which employs him, Washburn for the past 18 years has worked as an employee in the non-profit's Boston office.  You can read a testimonial about his conduct at the office in the early 1990s. 

He is allegedly classified as a Class One sex offender which means he does not show up in sex offender database searches. 

If you were a victim of Ted Washburn's or you believe that you have information about some of his activities that would help Opening BB&N Minds reach out to others and ensure that Ted is no longer a threat, please contact  us.

"Judge Flannery's order to Washburn to stay away from children and continue in psychiatric practice offers little, if any, assurance that Washburn will stop his abusing behavior."

From Letter to the Editor
The Boston Globe, February 25, 1988

Washburn being confronted by Mike Beaudet, Fox News in May 2009.

Washburn in 1990
(Lexington Minuteman Archives)

"He was subject to fits of rage, [a social worker] testified, and the children had a long standing fear of him.[...]

Pornography was used to test their boundaries and to arouse them.  There was an enormous betrayal of trust."