AUSTRALIA
Brisbane Times
November 13, 2015
Jorge Branco
Journalist
A former Brisbane private school headmaster has admitted he was told a school counsellor was sharing information about the size of boys’ penises more than a year before the counsellor was revealed as a paedophile.
Ex St Paul’s School headmaster Gilbert Case told the child sex abuse royal commission in Brisbane on Friday he didn’t consider the complaints “very alarming”.
Mr Case admitted that in September 1995 two boys, identified during the inquiry as BSB and BRC, raised concerns about adequacy of penis size stemming from meetings with notorious paedophile Kevin John Lynch.
“But this was not expressed in any way which could have pointed to the suggestion that the boys’ sexual organs had been sighted by Mr Lynch,” Mr Case wrote to lawyers representing the school and its insurers the following year.
Counsel assisting David Lloyd questioned whether Mr Case thought it was OK for a counsellor to be sharing between students concerns about the adequacy of their penis size.
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