AUSTRALIA
Sky News
The sexual abuse of boys at an elite Hobart school in the 1960s was common knowledge but attempts to raise the alarm were stifled, a national royal commission has been told.
A royal commission has heard sexual abuse of boys at an elite Hobart school in the 1960s was common knowledge.
Science teacher Geoffrey Ayling resigned from The Hutchins School in 1966 and changed careers.
“I no longer wanted to work in the school … because of the prevalence of pedophiles among teaching staff,” Mr Ayling, now 75, told a commission hearing in Hobart on Thursday.
At the time there were six teachers among the senior staff of about 16 whom he believed had an interest in boys.
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