AUSTRALIA
Sydney Morning Herald

Rachel Browne

A child psychologist held back tears as she told a royal commission how her son was allegedly abused by a teacher at the private school she believed to be “nurturing and protective”.

Marija Radojevic​ told the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse she trusted the school implicitly.

The commission is hearing evidence into how sexual predators manipulate their victims as well as those around them.

“My husband and I had no reason to suspect that our son was being groomed by an unmarried teacher,” she said.

“We did not know it was happening right under our nose. We truly believed that the Christian ethic with which our son was raised and which the school espoused was a nurturing and protective one.”

Dr Radojevic told the commission she and her husband, a child psychiatrist, placed too much trust in the unnamed…