AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Margaret Paul
Geelong Grammar is looking to change the way it deals with victims of sexual abuse at the school, the commercial manager of the school has told the child abuse royal commission.
Andrew Moore gave evidence at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse about the way the school dealt with victims of sexual abuse over several decades.
He was quizzed about the case of a former student, known only as BIW, who was abused by boarding house master Philippe Trutmann in 1989.
Trutmann was at the school’s Highton campus in the 1980s and 90s, and was eventually convicted of sexually assaulting 41 students during that time.
Counsel assisting the inquiry David Lloyd asked why the school refused to acknowledge key facts in BIW’s case even after Trutmann had pleaded guilty.
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