AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Sam Ikin and Rosemary Bolger
A national investigation into child sexual abuse has heard it was widely known that sexual abuse was occurring at a Hobart private boys school in the 1960s.
At the first public hearings in Tasmania for the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, witnesses have broken down giving evidence.
They spoke about the abuse by former staff at Hutchins School and their anger at the school for not dealing with the issue.
One told the hearing that as late as last year, the school was attempting to whitewash what had happened.
Four former students gave evidence about the sexual abuse they suffered at the hands of school staff, including former headmaster David Lawrence.
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