Trinity Grammar, King’s School Failed to Report Abuse, Commission Hears

By Dan Box
The Australian
October 20, 2016

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A prestigious Sydney private school did not tell police about the alleged rape of pupils with a wooden dildo for a month, with the victim’s parents not told for another month after that, a royal commission heard today.

A second of the city’s leading boarding schools did not report an alleged indecent assault to police, despite being told “there is little doubt that there has been an offence”, the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse heard.

Both schools, Trinity Grammar in Sydney’s inner-west and The King’s School in the city’s west, are Anglican-run and the Archbishop of Sydney, Glenn Davies, is the president of both, the commission heard.

In August 2000, staff at Trinity Grammar School became aware that at least two older students were “raping” other boys using cricket bats and wooden dildos made during a technology class, which they nicknamed the Anaconda and the Excalibur.