AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Louisa Rebgetz and Leonie Mellor
The father of a former Brisbane Grammar School (BGS) student has told a child sexual abuse inquiry that he informed the school principal in 1981 that his son had been sexually abused.
During hearings in Brisbane yesterday, the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse heard how former counsellor Kevin John Lynch abused students at the school during counselling sessions in his office.
Lynch worked at BGS in Spring Hill and at St Paul’s School in Bald Hills from the 1970s to the 1990s.
He killed himself in 1997 after being charged with abusing a student at St Paul’s, having moved there after Grammar.
At today’s hearing, the father of a BGS ex-student said he had a meeting that lasted about five minutes with then school principal, Max Howell, after hearing Lynch had touch his son inappropriately.
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