AUSTRALIA
Sydney Morning Herald
Rachel Browne
Social Affairs Reporter
The headmaster of the prestigious King’s School, Tim Hawkes, said he was not sorry about the way he handled the alleged sexual assault of a year 8 boy under his supervision at Knox Grammar School in the 1980s.
Dr Hawkes was housemaster at Knox Grammar’s MacNeil House when a masked man entered the building and assaulted the boy in the middle of the night late in 1988.
He told the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse he did not call the police because he believed it was the responsibility of the then headmaster, Dr Ian Paterson.
Outside the commission, he said he was not sorry for his response.
“I have no regrets,” he said. “I have nothing to regret.”
Under cross-examination from counsel assisting the commission, David Lloyd, Dr Hawkes said he was unaware of a legal requirement for teachers to report abuse to the director-general of the Department of Family and Community Services.
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