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Andi Yu – AAP on October 20, 2016
A culture of cover-up was at the centre of a top Sydney school’s response to a boy who was raped with an assortment of pole-like implements, the abuse royal commission has heard.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sex Abuse began fresh hearings on Thursday in Sydney, this time casting a spotlight on schools’ responses to children with “problematic or harmful sexual behaviours”.
Prestigious Anglican school Trinity Grammar, in the inner-western suburb of Summer Hill, is the first of several schools to come under the inquiry’s spotlight over the next two weeks.
The commission heard of two boys in the school’s boarding house in 2000 who reported they had been repeatedly “raped” with a range of implements that their attackers had nicknamed the Anaconda, the Excalibur and the Dagger.
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