WASHINGTON — An independent report commissioned by the Indian Health Service found that officials at the federal agency silenced and punished whistle-blowers in an effort to protect a doctor who sexually abused boys on several Native American reservations for decades.
At the same time, the report, written early last year but kept private until now, found that members of I.H.S. management “willfully ignored or actively suppressed any efforts to address the dangers themselves.”
The 161-page report...