AUSTRALIA
The Australian
[with video]
FEBRUARY 25, 2015
Ean Higgins
Reporter
Sydney
A PEDOPHILE teacher at Sydney’s prestigious Knox Grammar expected to be sacked after being caught showing pornographic videos to a student, but instead stayed at the school for another 22 years, during which time he abused other boys.
Craig Treloar, convicted in 2010 for sexually abusing three boys, was asked at an inquiry this morning how he felt when, in 1987, he was called into the office of the headmaster, Ian Paterson, and confronted with the pornography complaint made by the boy.
He said he admitted to the pornography charge, but said he was not asked by Mr Paterson whether he had engaged in any more serious misconduct.
“I most likely would have said no, because I was too scared,” Treloar told the inquiry.
“I was quite distressed. I thought my career was over, I thought I’d be sacked.”
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