February 23, 2015
AUSTRALIA
Sydney Morning Herald
Rachel Browne
Social Affairs Reporter
Eight teachers at the prestigious Knox Grammar School abused young students over a 30-year period and yet the school did not notify police, a royal commission has heard.
Day one of a public hearing into the school contained fresh allegations against three staff. Five other staff members have already been convicted over sexual offences involving students.
The commission will also hear evidence that a number of files of students who made complaints of abuse may have been deliberately destroyed.
In his opening address to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, counsel assisting the commission David Lloyd said the school did not report allegations to the police for decades.
“The abuse was perpetrated by these teachers between approximately 1970 and the year 2003,” he said.
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