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A Geelong Grammar School student was threatened with expulsion after reporting a chaplain for molesting him during a hypnosis session, the child abuse royal commission has heard.
The same chaplain tried to hypnotise a bullied student in an effort to have sex with him before later becoming a church vicar in suburban Melbourne, the inquiry heard.
Counsel assisting the commission David Lloyd said former student BKO will give evidence that Rev John Davison touched him during one of two after-school sessions in which the chaplain tried to hypnotise a group of students.
BKO reported the incident to a teacher but found the subsequent process very threatening and was told he may be expelled, Mr Lloyd said.
Another former student Dr Robert Llewellyn-Jones, who was 15 at the time, said Rev Davison offered him support because he was being bullied, including incessant “mocking” or verbal bullying.
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