AUSTRALIA
Daily Mail (UK)
By LILLIAN RADULOVA FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA and AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATED PRESS
A prestigious Sydney school erected memorial gates for a teacher who was known to be a ‘notorious molester’ with the inscription ‘he touched us all’, an inquiry has been told.
Former Knox Grammar School student Scott Ashton, 44, told a royal commission hearing investigating how the Uniting Church and the private school responded to child abuse allegations, that he was left deeply confused by the tribute to the late Bruce Barrett.
Mr Ashton called the art teacher a ‘notorious molester’ while giving evidence to the commission on Tuesday, as he revealed the abuse he had personally suffered at Barrett’s hands in the Wahroonga school’s classrooms on Sydney’s North Shore.
In his statement, read out by close friend Gretel Pinniger who is also known as the high profile Sydney dominatrix Madame Lash, Mr Ashton said Barrett would chase and tickle his students.
He told the inquiry that Barrett would occasionally wear a red tie, announcing ‘watch out boys, it’s a red tie day’ to signify someone would be canned that day.
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