AUSTRALIA
Brisbane Times
March 12 2016
Rory Callinan
The first official confirmation of a teacher knowing about paedophile behaviour by notorious school counsellor Kevin “Skippy” Lynch at exclusive private school Brisbane Grammar has emerged out of the royal commission investigating child abuse responses.
The shock admission could call into question the multitude of compensation claims and settlements involving Lynch’s more than 100 victims from what was one of the state’s worst ever private school abuse scandals.
The admission is contained in a late statement from a former teacher to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, which was investigating Lynch’s abuse of students at two Brisbane private schools in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s.
Lynch, who killed himself in 1997 after being confronted by police investigating abuse allegations, was alleged to have abused more than 70 students from Brisbane Grammar where he worked as a counsellor in the 1970s and 1980s.
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