AUSTRALIA
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
November 20, 2017
By David Chen
Shalom Christian College in Townsville is shutting down its secondary and boarding schools, saying it is in the “best interests of our students”.
The north Queensland college was criticised during the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse for its handling of the sexual assault of a 14-year-old-girl in 2006.
The commission heard she was assaulted by four boys behind a classroom at the school, when the students were supposed to be in the boarding house.
The Uniting Church, which operates the school, told the royal commission it did not receive enough government funding to keep its students safe.
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