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A Hobart schoolboy twice raped by a teacher was too scared to speak up about the abuse out of fear he would be labelled a homosexual and arrested.
Timothy Rowland, 68, said he was aged 15 or 16 when he was a student at the exclusive Hutchins school and abused by French teacher Lyndon Alfred Hickman.
He told a royal commission hearing in Sydney on Thursday about the fear which has kept him quiet for more than 50 years.
When Mr Rowland’s mother saw blood in his underwear at the time, he said he had been caned at school.
“I felt appalled and afraid. I thought that (if) anyone found out, people would think I was gay and I would be arrested,” Mr Rowland told the hearing.
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