AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Nicole Chettle
A former teacher at Sydney’s Knox Grammar School has denied he was the so-called balaclava man, who indecently assaulted a sleeping student in 1988.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse previously heard that in 1988, a teenage boarder woke to find a masked man groping him from under his bed and many people believed the former boarding master Christopher Fotis was the perpetrator.
The police were not contacted about the incident, but former headmaster Dr Ian Paterson told the commission he suspected Mr Fotis committed the indecent assault, but he had no proof.
In his opening statement, counsel assisting the commission, David Lloyd said Mr Fotis continued teaching at Knox Grammar School until “the latter part of 1989” when he resigned “after being arrested for masturbating in his car while parked outside a school”.
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