AUSTRALIA
The Guardian
Australian Associated Press
Sunday 8 November 2015
The former Anglican archbishop of Brisbane, Phillip Aspinall, allegedly told a paedophile music tutor’s victim to turn away from his “sinful path” of pursuing legal action against the church.
The royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse continued hearings on Monday into the experiences of former students and staff responses at two prestigious Brisbane schools.
A former student of St Paul’s school told the inquiry he had been abused by convicted pedophile Gregory Robert Knight after starting at the school in 1981. Knight groomed him for abuse, eventually drugging and raping him, he said.
The victim said a maths teacher even taunted him about his relationship with the tutor, calling him Knight’s “doormat” among other homophobic slurs.
He claimed this teacher also made him sit on the classroom doormat and encouraged students to pretend to wipe dog faeces on him.
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