AUSTRALIA
9 News
A former teacher who sexually abused his student at a high school in the NSW Blue Mountains now wants his victim to pay his legal bills.
Mark Wurth was repeatedly abused at the Blue Mountains Grammar School by then-house master and geography teacher Neville Gilbert Betteridge in the 1970s.
“He was coming into the dormitory through the infirmary of a night and taking me from my bed back to his room,” Mr Wurth told the ABC.
In 2004, Betteridge was convicted of two counts of indecent assault on Mr Wurth and given a three-year suspended jail term.
Seven years later, Mr Wurth decided to sue the Anglican Church Diocese, which ran the school at the time, and Betteridge for damages.
The church paid Mr Wurth an out-of-court settlement and Mr Wurth then offered to withdraw the action against Betteridge.
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