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ABC News

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The former principal of St Ann’s special school in Adelaide, Claude Hamam, has admitted to the Royal Commission into Child Sexual Abuse that he didn’t do a criminal record check or verify the references of Brian Perkins, a convicted paedophile who went on to abuse about 30 children at the school in the late 1980s and ’90s.

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PETER LLOYD: The former principal of an Adelaide special school has told the Royal Commission into Child Sexual Abuse that he did not do a criminal record check or verify the references of a bus driver who went on to abuse about 30 intellectually disabled children at the school in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Claude Hamam also acknowledged that he bore some responsibility for allowing Brian Perkins to take some of the St Ann’s children on respite care weekends where they were abused.

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