AUSTRALIA
Daily Mail
Former Knox Grammar teacher Timothy Hawkes reveals ‘bizarre and extraordinary’ sex attack on a pupil was not reported to police… despite the headmaster knowing about it
By Sarah Carty for Daily Mail Australia and AAP
A ‘bizarre and extraordinary’ incident where a boy at an elite Sydney school was sexually assaulted by someone wearing a balaclava was reported to the headmaster but not police, a hearing has been told.
Timothy Hawkes, a former teacher at Knox Grammar School on Sydney’s north shore, was in charge of the boarding house where the incident happened in 1988.
On Thursday, Dr Hawkes, who is now headmaster of The Kings School, told a royal commission hearing he rang then headmaster Ian Paterson about 5am to report the incident which he described as ‘bizarre and extraordinary and extremely worrying and even frightening’.
It was not his role to ring police, he said, but he expected the headmaster would.
However, he was never interviewed by police nor, to his knowledge, were any of the boys.
Dr Hawkes said there was no history of intruders getting into the dorms.
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