AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Nicole Chettle
A former teacher at the prestigious Knox Grammar School in Sydney was suspected of hiding under a boy’s bed and inappropriately touching him, the royal commission into child sexual abuse has heard.
The commission heard details of the alleged assault, which was said to have occured in the late 1980s, from Dr Timothy Hawkes, who was a former Knox Grammar boarding house master and is now the current headmaster at Kings School at Parramatta.
Dr Hawkes said he was alerted to what became known as the “balaclava man” incident when he responded to what was believed to be an intruder about 5:00am.
“This was just a bizarre, extraordinary and extremely worrying and even frightening event,” Dr Hawkes told the hearing.
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