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ELEANOR HALL: After two days of evidence from former students of Sydney’s Knox Grammar school, a convicted offender is now appearing at the royal commission into child sexual abuse.
Craig Treloar was sentenced to two years in jail in 2009 for assault offences dating back more than two decades.
Thomas Oriti is covering the commission hearings and joins us now.
Thomas, tell us more about today’s witness.
THOMAS ORITI: Well Eleanor, when a group of former Knox students first reported their abuse to police in 2009, five teachers were convicted of child sex offences.
Four of them received suspended sentences, or good behaviour bonds, and only one of them went to jail.
That was Craig Treloar, who in fact was still teaching at Knox Grammar until his arrest. In total, he was there for 27 years.
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