Oxfam’s deputy chief executive resigns over Haiti scandal

Oxfam’s deputy chief executive resigned Monday, saying she took “full responsibility” for failing to act immediately in the sexual misconduct scandal involving the charity’s workers in Haiti following the 2010 earthquake.

Penny Lawrence, Oxfam program director at the time, said she was “ashamed that this happened on my watch.”

At an emergency meeting Monday, Oxfam’s leaders “also made a full and unqualified apology” and spoke of a “deep sense of disgrace and shame,” said British Development Secretary Penny Mordaunt.