AUSTRALIA
The Guardian
Joshua Robertson
Friday 13 November 2015
The headmaster of a Brisbane school did not think it “alarming” or “improper” when two students complained a school counsellor had discussed their penis sizes with the other, a commission has heard.
Former St Paul’s principal Gilbert Case gave evidence at the hearings of the royal commission into institutional responses to child sex abuse on Friday, concerning his former school. The commission has heard evidence former counsellor Kevin Lynch abused boys at St Paul’s and earlier at Brisbane Grammar school over two decades before his death in 1997.
Lynch killed himself after a student wore a wire to a meeting with him where he confessed his sexual abuse. Case told the commission he had arranged to call Lynch during the meeting to check on his welfare after he confided he “could be harmed” during it.
Case said he did not know he was meeting a former St Paul’s student nor did he suspect his friend Lynch was what he now knew to be a “wholesale paedophile”.
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