AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Ben Millington
The principal of a North Queensland boarding school where a teenage girl was raped says the school still cannot guarantee the safety of its students due to a lack of funding.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse is looking into how Townsville-based Indigenous school Shalom Christian College handled the sexual assault of a 14-year-old female student in the 2000s.
The girl, known to the commission as CLF, was raped by four boys behind a classroom at night when the students were supposed to be in the boarding house.
At a hearing in Sydney, current principal Christopher England was asked if he could provide a safe environment for students in the boarding houses with resource levels.
He replied: “No sir.”
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