AUSTRALIA
Sydney Morning Herald
February 24, 2015
Rachel Browne
A paedophile teacher received a glowing reference from Knox Grammar School praising his teaching skills, despite having indecently assaulted one student and physically assaulted two others, a royal commission has heard.
Former student ASD complained in 1987 that teacher and resident housemaster Damian Vance indecently assaulted him while they were in a room under the Knox chapel.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse was told that then headmaster Dr Ian Paterson did not ask Vance to resign until 1989.
Dr Paterson told Vance he should take a real estate job in Melbourne, saying “I think you know why”, Vance told the commission.
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