AUSTRALIA
Daily Mail (UK)
Boys ‘cheered as former headmaster at Knox Grammar School groped a young girl’ during a rehearsal for a school musical
Boys from Knox Grammar roared with approval when their headmaster touched a young girl who was taking part in a school musical, an inquiry has heard.
Lucy Perry, who now heads an international women’s health charity, told the child abuse royal commission she was indecently assaulted by the elite Sydney boys school’s former headmaster Ian Paterson in 1989 when she was 15.
Ms Perry, chief executive of Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia (Australia), said the assault happened in full view of students at the Knox school hall and the boys who saw it ‘roared with approval’.
She reported the assault to NSW police in 2009 when allegations about sexual abuse at Knox were emerging.
Ms Perry’s school, Roseville College, and Knox Grammar had been jointly staging the musical ‘Guys and Dolls’.
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