AUSTRALIA
The Guardian
Australian Associated Press
Thursday 5 March 2015
The former headmaster of Knox Grammar said on Friday that he never misled police who came to ask him about alleged paedophile teachers at the school.
Ian Paterson directly contradicted evidence that he gave earlier in the week where he said he accepted he had deliberately withheld information from Inspector Elizabeth Cullen of the child protection squad in 1996.
Paterson, in his final appearance at a royal commission hearing into how the Sydney boys school handled abuse complaints, went into damage control after two weeks of damning evidence.
He said he knew of only three sex abuse complaints during his 30 years at the school.
And he said that while he failed to protect the welfare of the victims, he believed he had in place “an outstanding system of pastoral care” for other pupils.
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