AUSTRALIA
Townsville Bulletin
VICTORIA NUGENT, Townsville Bulletin
November 3, 2016
THE principal of Shalom Christian College told a Royal Commision he did not have the resources to guarantee students’ safety just hours before a wild brawl erupted at the school yesterday.
And a former principal told the commision the school dealt with about 20 sexual assaults a year, with a third of students having sexually transmitted diseases when a 14-year-old girl was allegedly gang-raped by four male sudents.
The Townsville boarding school has been under the spotlight this week at the Royal Commission into institutional responses to child sex abuse.
The commission is examining the school’s response to the alleged gang rape in 2006.
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