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ELEANOR HALL: One of Australia’s most prestigious schools is back in the spotlight today over allegations it covered up sexual abuse at the school for decades.
A former headmaster at the Geelong Grammar School’s Highton Campus has taken the stand at the Royal Commission Into Institutional Responses to Child Sex Abuse.
Jessica Longbottom has been following the proceedings and she joins us now.
Jessica, former students who’ve alleged they were harmed have been waiting on the evidence of this former headmaster. What are the key allegations against him?
JESSICA LONGBOTTOM: Well Eleanor, at previous hearings we’ve heard that abuse flourished at Geelong Grammar in the 80s and 90s when at least two paedophiles were operating at the school.
And it was when Robert Bugg, who was the headmaster of the school’s Highton campus from 1981 to 1993, when he was in charge it was when one of the worst paedophiles was operating.
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