AUSTRALIA
Canberra Times
Michael Inman
A former Canberra school teacher was sacked from St. Edmund’s College after allegations of improper conduct with a student, a court has heard.
The alleged victim did not go into detail with the school headmaster at the time and then kept his silence after Garry Leslie Marsh’s termination.
The ACT Supreme Court has heard that coverage of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse stirred memories and prompted the alleged victim to report the matter to police 35 years on.
But the defence says this passage of time disadvantaged the accused as it made it harder to challenge the allegations.
Marsh, 72, of Sydney, is on trial before Justice John Burns accused of indecent assault and buggery.
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