NEW SOUTH WALES (AUSTRALIA)
Newcastle Herald
July 16, 2020
By Luke Costin
After years of denial, trial delays and a hung jury, a former Sydney Catholic college principal has finally admitted he preyed upon boys at his school.
Peter Nicholas Lennox, now a frail 81-year-old, was permitted to remain seated as he pleaded guilty on Thursday to indecently assaulting two boys at St Paul’s Catholic College, Manly in the 1970s.
“The tide waits for no man and today the tide comes in,” one victim wrote in a letter tendered to the NSW District Court.
That student, then aged 12, was set upon by the Christian Brother after being kicked out of science class in 1977.
Led to a chemical room and questioned about why he was out of class, the Year 7 boy was fearful he was going to get the strap, court documents show.
But instead, Lennox spent five to 10 minutes rubbing his hand over the crotch of the boy’s school pants.
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