Child sex abuse inquiry: Sydney’s Knox Grammar apologises for failing to protect students from sexual abuse

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ABC News

By Nicole Chettle

Elite Sydney boys’ school Knox Grammar has apologised for failing to protect its students from sexual abuse by teachers.

The Royal Commission into the Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse is looking into complaints of inappropriate conduct by teachers at the school between 1970 and 2003.

Five former teachers have been convicted on a range of charges including sexual and indecent assault.

Geoffrey Watson SC, acting for Knox Grammar, told the hearing the Uniting Church-run school in Sydney’s north failed to protect students.

“The school humbly and sincerely apologises for its failure,” he said.

“It apologises to all of those students who are damaged by these events.

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