AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Kieran Jones
A report into the abuse of students who attended Hobart’s elite The Hutchins School has found it avoided apologising to an abuse victim in order to protect its reputation.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has released its report after weeks of public hearings last year.
It investigated the school’s response to allegations against former headmaster David Lawrence and teacher Lyndon Hickman as well as the role and influence of the Anglican Church on the response.
A student, known as AOA, was at the school from 1964 until August or September of 1965, and the report states that he was groomed and sexually abused by Lawrence who was headmaster between 1963 and 1970.
Lawrence abruptly resigned from the position and fled overseas in 1970 after being interviewed by Tasmania Police for offences involving sexual activity with another student.
He was never arrested over the incident.
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