AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Nicole Chettle
A former Knox Grammar School student has told a royal commission he witnessed former headmaster Dr Ian Paterson inappropriately touch a girl during a school musical rehearsal in 1989.
Lucy Perry told the Royal Commission into Institutional Child Sexual Abuse on Tuesday that Dr Paterson touched her buttocks and placed his hand near her genitals, on the outside of her costume.
On Wednesday, Dr Paterson denied groping Ms Perry, who is now the chief executive of the women’s health charity Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia.
The boy she was partnered with for the show, known as AUE, today told the inquiry he had a clear view of the incident from the floor of the school’s assembly hall.
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