AUSTRALIA
Sydney Morning Herald
January 22, 2015
Paul Bibby
Court Reporter
Child sexual abuse at the exclusive Sydney private school, Knox Grammar, will be publicly investigated by the Royal Commission next month.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sex Abuse announced on Thursday that it would conduct a wide ranging public hearing into how the school, located in Wahroonga on Sydney’s upper north shore, had responded to inappropriate conduct by teachers towards students between 1970 to 2012.
This would include:
* The experience of sexual abuse of former students at Knox Grammar;
* The response of the school and the Uniting Church to concerns about inappropriate conduct, including investigations and subsequent and criminal proceedings;
* The systems, policies and procedures in place at Knox by which sexual abuse concerns were raised and responded to since 1970; and
* The regulatory system governing Knox’s response to allegations of child sexual abuse by its employees.
Knox Grammar has been the scene of multiple instances of child sexual abuse, particularly in the 1980s.
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