AUSTRALIA
Herald Sun
THE man who ran Knox Grammar School for 30 years is expected to be asked on Tuesday what he told students about a balaclava-wearing intruder who molested a 14-year-old boy.
IAN Paterson’s appearance at a royal commission hearing into the elite Sydney boys’ school has been delayed since Friday as more witnesses come forward.
Much of the inquiry, which is now in its second week, has concerned an incident in late 1988 when an intruder wearing a Knox tracksuit and a balaclava hid under a boy’s bed and tried to molest him in the early hours of the morning.
Stuart Pearson, the former general duties master at the school and a former policeman said a few days after the incident Dr Paterson told the boys police had arrested an “Asian man” for the break-in.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse can find no record that police were ever contacted and on Monday a former student told the commission he recalled Dr Paterson saying the intruder was an “old boy” with mental problems.
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