SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WALES (AUSTRALIA)
Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse
October 18, 2017
[Note: See also the text of the Report of Case Study No. 45: Problematic and harmful sexual behaviours of children in schools, and the Case Study No. 45 page with links to hearings transcripts, submissions, and exhibits.]
The Royal Commission into Institutional Reponses to Child Sexual Abuse’s Report of Case Study 45 – Problematic and harmful sexual behaviours of children in schools – was released today.
This report follows a public hearing held in Sydney in October and November 2016.
The King’s School, Parramatta NSW
The Royal Commission examined the response of The King’s School to an incident of harmful sexual behaviour involving CLC, a former King’s student, at a cadet camp in April 2013.
CLC, then in year 10, awoke one night to find that another student had ejaculated onto his sleeping bag. Over the following months, CLC was bullied by students, who called him ‘cum rag’ and ‘cum dumpster’. On one occasion, students renamed the King’s wi-fi networks ‘CLC is a cum rag’.
In August 2013, CLC disclosed the cadet camp incident and the bullying he was experiencing to staff at King’s. Over the next fortnight, the deputy headmaster, Dr Andrew Parry, conducted an investigation into the camp incident and the bullying, which broadly confirmed CLC’s allegations.
Dr Parry telephoned the youth liaison officer at Castle Hill police station to discuss the incident. Following this conversation, the police officer sent Dr Parry an email advising that a criminal act had been committed and that the incident should be reported to police. However, no report was made.
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