AUSTRALIA
The Advocate
It took twenty years of requests for an elite Hobart school to apologise to a student who was sexually abused by its headmaster in the 1960s, a Royal Commission has been told.
Sitting in Tasmania for the first time, the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse was told the Hutchins School initially denied of a former student’s plea for an apology.
The former student, known as AOA, was sexually abused by former headmaster David Ralph Lawrence, and maintained contact with him after leaving the school and the state, counsel assisting the commission Angus Stewart, SC, said.
Mr Stewart said the school had only apologised to AOA last month, despite reporting the abuse in 1993, as well as media reports and the assistance of federal MPs.
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