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Sex abuse royal commission: Geelong Grammar chaplain tried to hypnotise students before sexually assaulting them
September 1, 2015
Henrietta Cook
Education Reporter at The Age
A chaplain at one of the country’s most prestigious private schools tried to hypnotise students before sexually assaulting them, a victim told the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sex Abuse.
The royal commission turned its focus to Geelong Grammar, where serious and ongoing sexual abuse occurred from the late 1950s until 2007.
Former student and Sydney psychiatrist Dr Robert Llewellyn-Jones told the commission on Tuesday that the school’s chaplain, the now deceased Reverend John Davison, befriended him in 1971 and then tried to hypnotise him with a watch in his locked office.
Reverend Davison then indecently assaulted him, before accusing Dr Llewellyn-Jones of propositioning him.
“There was a subculture of brutality,” he said.
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