AUSTRALIA
The Advertiser
Megan Neil, Australian Associated Press
February 14, 2017
Sydney’s elite Cranbrook School has given headmaster Nicholas Sampson its full support despite his failure to report a teacher accused of abuse during his time at Geelong Grammar.
Geelong Grammar School’s 2001-2004 headmaster organised for Jonathan Harvey to be paid his entire 2005 salary to retire a year early after a staff member complained his brother was abused by the teacher in the 1970s.
Mr Sampson left in July 2004 to head England’s prestigious Marlborough College and Harvey remained at Geelong Grammar for the remainder of the year before retiring.
Mr Sampson did not report the allegation to the police or the Victorian Institute of Teaching, the child sex abuse royal commission said.
The commission accepted Mr Sampson attempted to act in the victim’s best interests in securing Harvey’s resignation without disclosing the former student’s identity but said it was clear he should have notified the institute.
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