AUSTRALIA
Sky News
A mother has told an inquiry how the abuse her son suffered a prestigious Sydney school means her hopes for him are now stripped down to mere survival.
Her son, ATS, started at Knox Grammar School in Wahroonga in 2002 when he was 10.
She said her son was very happy for the first term but then changed – he became quiet and withdrawn.
He refused to talk to his parents, became angry and hostile and self-harmed before being hospitalised after a serious suicide attempt.
When he was 14, ATS revealed to a psychiatrist that he had been abused by Craig Treloar, who had been targeting boys at the school for years.
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