Royal commission: Knox Grammar teachers thought paedophile was just ‘showing off’

AUSTRALIA
Sydney Morning Herald

February 25, 2015

Rachel Browne

Two of the most senior staff at Knox Grammar School believed a teacher showed hardcore pornography to students to “show off” and failed to tell the children’s parents what happened or notify police, a royal commission has heard.

Former preparatory school head Michael Jenkinson told the royal commission that he and headmaster Ian Paterson questioned teacher Craig Treloar’s motives for exposing the boys to the explicit material.

Treloar admitted to Dr Paterson he watched pornography with the boys in 1987 but was allowed to keep his job after a short period of suspension.

Mr Jenkinson said he was not aware of the “level of depravity” in the material which included paedophilia and bestiality.

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