Child sex inquiry: ‘Skippy’ victims may be in hundreds

By Michael Mckenna
Australian
November 2, 2015

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The victims of notorious pedophile Kevin “Skippy’’ Lynch may be in the hundreds, with new ­evidence given to the royal commission into child sexual abuse about the unknown extent of his private “relaxation sessions’’ with students.

Lynch’s appointment diaries from his almost 10 years as a counsellor at St Paul’s Anglican school in Brisbane have emerged, showing hundreds of students were booked for regular visits to his locked rooms up until his arrest and suicide in 1997.

At least 100 boys are known to have been abused in the ­sessions by Lynch at Brisbane Grammar School, where he worked between 1974 and 1988, and later at St Paul’s.

It is understood the appointment diaries have never been handed over to authorities, with police closing their covert operation soon after Lynch, 64, gassed himself in a car after he was charged with seven counts of ­indecent dealing with a student.

The royal commission is understood to have unearthed evidence of inaction over complaints and a subsequent cover-up of Lynch’s offending over decades. Two weeks of hearings will begin in Brisbane tomorrow, after the commission said in September that it was reopening the Lynch case and that of Gregory Robert Knight, who taught at St Paul’s in the late 1980s and early 90s and was convicted of child abuse in 2005.