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Courier-Mail
Victim tells of 20-year wait for apology as Royal Commission hears of sex abuse claims at exclusive school
A VICTIM of child sexual abuse at Hobart’s Hutchins School has told a royal commission he was insulted when the school sent him an apology just weeks ago — after more than 20 years of requests.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse yesterday held its first day of public hearings into the exclusive boys’ school.
The witness, known by the pseudonym AOA, repeatedly fought tears as he recounted how he was repeatedly sexually abused by headmaster David
Ralph Lawrence during private French tutoring in the mid-1960s.
AOA was one of four former Hutchins students who gave evidence that such abuse, involving multiple members of staff, was rife at the school during the 1960s.
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