AUSTRALIA
Herald Sun
DAVID KILLICK MERCURY NOVEMBER 21, 2014
A FORMER teacher at Hobart’s Hutchins School has told a royal commission he walked away from his career in his 20s because he was sick of working with pedophiles.
Geoffrey Ayling, 75, said he now knew that up to eight pedophiles were employed at the school during the mid-1960s — at a time when staff numbers were usually about 16-17.
He gave evidence to a hearing of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in Hobart yesterday.
“I knew of four, including [former headmaster David] Lawrence, plus two more,” he said. “Yesterday, I heard of two more.”
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