AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Nicole Chettle
A woman has accused former Knox Grammar School principal Ian Paterson of indecently assaulting her while she was taking part in a musical he was directing.
Lucy Perry, the chief executive of women’s charity Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia, said she reported the alleged abuse to police after hearing students at the school had been abused.
Dr Paterson has not been implicated in any child abuse allegations, but a royal commission has been examining his handling of the issue at the school, where children were abused between the 1970s and 2003.
Ms Perry’s account is the only allegation of abuse by Dr Paterson heard by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, which has been investigating the school for more than a week.
She told the Sydney hearing the assault happened in 1989 when she was a teenager.
She said Dr Paterson inappropriately touched her in front of the male performers, who laughed.
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