AUSTRALIA
Sydney Morning Herald
July 12, 2016
Rachel Browne
Social Affairs Reporter
The principal of a private school where a number of children were allegedly sexually molested told a royal commission the organisation did not have the resources to adequately investigate serious abuse claims.
Tony Fitzgerald, the principal and chief executive of the Mater Dei School in Camden, told the public hearing serious allegations should be investigated by a publicly-funded independent agency.
Three students were allegedly sexually assaulted at the school for children with disability in the early 1990s, the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse heard on Tuesday morning.
Mr Fitzgerald told the inquiry he had received two other allegations of staff misconduct since he became principal in 2010, one involving the suspected grooming of a student in a residential program and the other involving mismanagement of a student’s medication.
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