AUSTRALIA
Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse
15 February, 2017
The Royal Commission’s report into Case Study 34 – The response of Brisbane Grammar School and St Paul’s School to allegations of child sexual abuse – was released today.
The report follows a public hearing held in Brisbane in November 2015, which heard about the experiences of former students at Brisbane Grammar School at Spring Hill and St Paul’s School at Bald Hills. The public hearing also examined how the schools and others responded to allegations of child sexual abuse of former students.
At the public hearing a number of former students of the schools gave evidence of having been sexually abused by:
* Kevin Lynch (deceased) – a teacher and later counsellor at Brisbane Grammar between 1973 and 1988 and a counsellor at St Paul’s between 1989 and 1997
* Gregory Robert Knight – a teacher at St Paul’s between 1981 and 1984.
The Royal Commission heard evidence that, during the period of Kevin Lynch’s employment at Brisbane Grammar, he sexually abused a large number of students. There was evidence that a number of complaints against Kevin Lynch were made to senior staff at Brisbane Grammar and to the then headmaster, Dr Howell (now deceased).
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