AUSTRALIA
Brisbane Times
November 12, 2015
Jorge Branco
A former headmaster at a Brisbane school that employed two paedophiles says he didn’t believe a teacher touching or fondling students’ genitals would be a criminal act.
Ex-St Paul’s School headmaster Gilbert Case made the admission in 10 minutes of questioning by counsel assisting David Lloyd before the child abuse royal commission adjourned for lunch on Thursday.
Mr Lloyd asked the former teacher a series of questions broadly relating to alleged complaints from a student that paedophile music teacher Gregory Robert Knight had exposed himself to boys during a game of “truth or dare” at a school camp in Caloundra, on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, in 1983.
He asked whether Mr Case would have considered actions like these inappropriate.
“My view was and I presume you know this, that that was a factor in that teacher leaving the school,” Mr Case said.
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