AUSTRALIA
Radio Australia
By Nicole Chettle
A former Knox Grammar School student tells a royal commission the sexual abuse he suffered destroyed part of his life and chance at a normal education.
A former student at Sydney’s Knox Grammar School has told a royal commission that sexual abuse had “destroyed a lot of [his] life” and that he was traumatised by the sight of the current and former headmasters at the inquiry.
The royal commission into child sexual abuse has been examining reports of abuse of students at the school from the 1970s through to 2003.
The man, who the ABC will not identify, told the hearing in Sydney that he was abused in 2003, when he was in year six, by Craig Treloar, who was later sentenced to 4.5 years jail for indecent assault.
The man said he had made several suicide attempts, and went from being a promising student to a troubled teenager who was unable to concentrate in class.
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