Hobart’s Hutchins School should have been ‘aware’ of 1960s student risk: commission

Perth Now
December 16, 2015

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PREVIOUS administrators of a Hobart boys’ school should have been aware of the risk posed to students by predatory teaching staff in the 1960s, a royal commission report has found.

Commissioners Justice Jennifer Coate and Andrew Murray today released their report into the response of The Hutchins School and the Anglican Diocese of Tasmania to allegations of child sexual abuse at the school dating back to the early 1960s.

“Given the number of men who have complained of having been sexually abused when they were students at the school and the number of teachers who are implicated in that abuse, the nature of the school environment clearly placed children at risk,” the report reads.

“That is something that the board and the school community should have been aware of.”