AUSTRALIA
Sky News
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A former teacher at Knox Grammar has broken down as he laid the blame for his son’s ill health and early death squarely on the school he once respected.
John Rentoul, whose son David died aged 44 after a series of illnesses, told a national inquiry into how the Sydney school handled sex abuse allegations that he only found out in 2009 that his son had been abused by a teacher.
Dr Rentoul only found out about the abuse when David, who was at the school in the late 1970s, was giving evidence against his abuser Barrie Stewart.
‘I was shocked and outraged when David told us of the abuse,’ said Dr Rentoul, who taught at the school from 1969 to 1980.
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