AUSTRALIA
Townsville Bulletin
VICTORIA NUGENT, Townsville Bulletin
November 2, 2016
THE former principal of a Townsville boarding school said a rape victim was sent to a different campus to prevent the offenders from fleeing the school and escaping investigation.
Christopher Shirley, who was Shalom Christian College’s principal at the time of the 2006 assault, said the 14-year-old girl, referred to during the commission as CLF, was sent to the school’s Crystal Creek campus after disclosing the incident.
He added that he wanted to prevent the boys from “absconding from the school” if they thought the matter was being under investigation.
“My main concern was to make sure CLF was safe,” he said.
“My intention was to keep things calm, let them think no punishment was going to happen.”
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