AUSTRALIA
The Guardian
Australian Associated Press
Thursday 26 February 2015
Staff who abused boys at Knox Grammar have been condemned as “men of shame” by the headmaster of the Sydney private school.
John Weeks, headmaster at the Wahroonga school since 2004, is giving evidence at a royal commission hearing into how Knox and the Uniting church handled abuse allegations over a 30-year-period.
He said he wanted to apologise to the victims and their families for the pain they had suffered.
In 2007, Weeks apologised on behalf of the school and said on Friday that he realised no amount of apology could change what happened.
“I do want to say to the young men, here and listening, to the survivors, that I sincerely apologise for the sexual abuse inflicted upon you as young innocent boys,” he told the hearing in Sydney. “There is absolutely no excuse.”
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