AUSTRALIA
7 News
By Alexandra Patrikios
November 9, 2015
A victim of a convicted pedophile at an elite Brisbane school says it’s outrageous a lawyer for Peter Hollingworth asked him to delete references to the former governor-general from his statement to the sex abuse royal commission.
The former student of St Paul’s School told the royal commission he’d been abused by music tutor Gregory Robert Knight after starting at the school in 1981.
He said Knight groomed him for abuse, eventually drugging and raping him, but then-headmaster Gilbert Case told him to “never lie like that” when he revealed his treatment.
But he also said Mr Hollingworth, who was then Archbishop of Brisbane, showed no empathy and had made comments “instrumental” to his mental decline which tipped him into a severe depression.
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