AUSTRALIA
The Age
February 24, 2015
Craig Hughes-Cashmore
On Monday an entire room was brought to tears as the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse heard the heartbreaking testimony from a father of a Knox Grammar student who was a victim of child sexual abuse whilst at that school.
With his wife by his side for support, this brave elderly man dedicated his testimony to the memory of his cherished son who died just three years ago, prematurely at the age of 44.
The hearing room listened as he spoke of the health issues that lead to his son’s death – issues that had commenced at the time the abuse had begun when his son was 12 years old.
He reported that neither his son nor his family were ever offered an acknowledgement, an apology or support by the school administration at Knox, despite the conviction of the perpetrator in 2009.
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