AUSTRALIA
Sky News
Ten years after mandatory reporting of child sex abuse became law there was no system in place at Knox Grammar to make sure teachers knew they should call police.
In the fourth day of a hearing into how the up-market boys school on Sydney’s north shore dealt with sex abuse allegations, Peter Crawley said there were few systems in place when he took over from Ian Paterson as headmaster in 1999.
He said any system to educate staff about their obligations in terms of mandatory reporting was absent.
‘When I took over it was pretty clear that there were a lot of systems in that school that were absent …’ he said.
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