AUSTRALIA
The Age
Bianca Hall Timna Jacks
Xavier College’s administrators have taken the almost-unprecedented step of trying to force the psychologist of a man who claims he was sexually abused while a student at the school more than 40 years ago to give evidence against his patient.
Janusz Skarbek alleges he was raped when he was a student at the exclusive, Jesuit-run school between 1971 and 1974.
According to his lawyer, Mr Skarbek had his first “realisation” he had been abused about six months after he had been seeing Dr Geoff Pearce, a Queensland psychologist, for unrelated matters more than 40 years later.
Mr Skarbek has launched a Supreme Court lawsuit against his former school, claiming it was negligent in its treatment of him and seeking compensation for his pain and suffering.
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