AUSTRALIA
Brisbane Times
November 9, 2015
Jorge Branco
Journalist
A mother has emotionally recalled how a former St Paul’s School headmaster accused her, her son, and an alleged abuse victim of lying when they tried to raise complaints about a paedophile teacher.
The mother of two former students told the child abuse royal commission she organised a meeting with Gilbert Case within a week of hearing complaints her son’s friend was regularly “touched up” by music teacher Gregory Robert Knight under the guise of checking pockets for cigarettes.
The 70-year-old, known only as BRW, said the meeting was in the early part of 1984 but she was so affected by the conversation that her memory was still perfect.
“I’m still stinging from it, because I couldn’t do anything,” she said.
“It hurt. It hurt not to be listened to and it hurt to be standing there like a schoolkid.”
BRW said a Bishop Wicks and another school representative were also at the meeting. At the end of the meeting she said she asked the Bishop what he was going to do,
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