AUSTRALIA
Canberra Times
Timna Jacks
A man continues to teach children even after pleading guilty to a sex crime against a former student.
The Victorian teaching regulator has twice given the man the green light to teach, despite the teacher admitting to indecently assaulting the former student in the late 1980s.
The teacher is now employed by a Catholic school and has been working there for nearly two decades.
The Victorian Institute of Teaching (VIT) investigated the teacher in 2011, and a hearing panel “determined that the teacher was fit to teach,” said the regulator’s chief executive, Melanie Saba.
This appears to contradict the regulator’s own rules, which state that a teaching registration must be denied to an applicant who “has been convicted or found guilty of a sexual or indictable offence”.
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