AUSTRALIA
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By Andrew Drummond
November 19, 2014
A schoolboy partially blinded by smoke in Tasmania’s worst bushfires needed one-on-one tuition.
In the shadow of Black Tuesday in 1967, sexual abuse began for a Year 6 student at Hobart’s elite Hutchins boys’ school, a royal commission has been told.
Now aged 60 and giving evidence under the pseudonym AOE, the man has told how music teacher Ron Thomas touched and rubbed against him while the pair sat at a piano.
“I would try to get up and run away but Thomas would catch me and hold me on the floor face down,” AOE said.
It was just one of many stories heard by the Royal Commission Into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, which opened its first public hearing in Hobart on Wednesday.
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