Predator used remote control lock when abusing boys

By David Murray
Courier Mail
September 27, 2015

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PREDATOR school counsellor Kevin Lynch used a remote control at his desk to lock his office door so he could sexually abuse students in total privacy.

Lynch’s reign of terror at St Paul’s School at Bald Hills and prestigious Brisbane Grammar School from the 1970s to 1990s will be aired at the child sex abuse royal commission.

A nine-day public hearing was announced on Friday, with past and present school principals expected to give evidence about their handling of historic and current abuse.

An appalling cover-up followed Lynch’s abuse, with both schools failing to check on the welfare of students he counselled after becoming aware of serious allegations against the counsellor.

Lynch counselled thousands of boys at Brisbane Grammar from 1972 to 1988 and then at St Paul’s from 1989 until his death in 1997.