AUSTRALIA
Brisbane Times
November 4, 2015
Jorge Branco
Journalist
A parent who complained to former Brisbane Grammar School headmaster Max Howell his son had been interfered with says he never heard from the school again.
The boy’s father, a retired doctor of 41 years, told the child abuse royal commission in Brisbane he received a panicked phone call from his son in the winter of 1981 saying: “Kevin Lynch is a poofter. He put his hands down my trousers and fiddled with my penis”.
The man, BQH, cleared his schedule for the following day and made a four-hour drive to Brisbane with wife BQI to meet with Mr Howell.
The former headmaster denied until his dying day he was told about the abuse but the father testified it was inconceivable he could have made the trip without telling him.
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