AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Nicole Chettle
A former headmaster of Sydney’s Knox Grammar School, Ian Paterson, “didn’t think” to alert police when a man wearing a balaclava allegedly indecently assaulted a student in his bed in 1988, an inquiry has heard.
At Sydney hearings of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Abuse, Dr Paterson rejected counsel assisting David Lloyd’s description of the incident as “very grave” and said he would reserve that term for rape.
Dr Paterson said he suspected former teacher Christopher Fotis was behind the attack on the sleeping student but had no proof.
An arrest warrant is outstanding for Mr Fotis for failing to appear at the commission.
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