AUSTRALIA
Sky News
Former Knox Grammar headmaster Ian Paterson gave a glowing reference to a religious teacher with prior child-sex convictions who resigned after being seen masturbating outside another school.
Dr Paterson, headmaster at the prestigious Sydney boys school from 1969 to 1998, has told a royal commission hearing that the reference he gave religious teacher Chris Fotis was ‘grossly inappropriate’.
Fotis, a Knox old boy, had been hired without any reference check.
He left the school in 1989 and at that stage Dr Paterson was aware of a string of complaints against him.
One was that he was suspected of donning a balaclava, hiding under a dormitory bed and groping a 14-year-old boy.
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