Abuse at exclusive schools revealed by royal commission

SYDNEY (AUSTRALIA)
Daily Telegraph

October 17, 2017

By Janet Fife-Yeomans

Two of Sydney’s most exclusive religious schools have come under fire from the child sex abuse royal commission after boys were “raped” with a homemade wooden dildo at one school while other boys were bullied and one called a “cum rag” at another.

The shocking abuse at Parramatta’s The King’s School and Trinity Grammar at Summer Hill — where parents pay up to $60,000 a year for tuition and boarding — was not adequately dealt with by the schools, the royal commission said today.

The commission had heard that at Trinity, a year 9 boarding student was found by the boarding house master on the floor, crying, his face covered in black boot polish and his trousers down in August 2000.

He had been sexually assaulted with a large wooden dildo, dubbed “the anaconda”, that one of the boys…