AUSTRALIA
Sky News
A ‘notorious molester’ at Knox Grammar School had memorial gates erected in his honour with the inscription ‘He touched us all’, an inquiry has been told.
Scott Ashton, 44 gave evidence on Tuesday at a royal commission hearing into how the Uniting Church and the Sydney private school responded to child abuse allegations.
Mr Ashton said he was deeply confused by the attitude at the school where all were expected to pay tribute to an art teacher Bruce Barrett who had died young.
Mr Ashton said Barrett was a ‘notorious molester’ but the school put up memorial gates at the back entrance to the Wahroonga school in his honour and bearing the inscription: ‘He touched us all’.
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