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Emma McBryde | 10th Oct 2014
A WOMAN told the royal commission she was only one of 63 children who came forward about sexual abuse they suffered at Victorian teacher Kenneth “Ken” Sandilands’ hands.
Emma Fretton chose to testify without a pseudonym at the public hearing in Sydney today.
Ms Fretton said she was in Mr Sandilands class for years 1, 2 and 3 at Northside Christian College in the mid-1980s when he abused her.
The commission is examining the response of the church body in charge of the college – Northside Christian Centre – and Australian Christian Churches, then known as the Assemblies of God.
Ms Fretton testified she told two teachers Sandilands was touching her inappropriately and writing sexual stories about her family then forcing her to sign them.
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