Knox Grammar old boy saw headmaster hit girl on buttocks: ‘It was more of a grope’

AUSTRALIA
Daily Telegraph

JANET FIFE-YEOMANS THE DAILY TELEGRAPH MARCH 06, 2015

A KNOX Grammar old boy has come forward to back up a claim his former headmaster Dr Ian Paterson “groped” a scantily-clad schoolgirl during ­rehearsals for Guys and Dolls.

The man told the child sex abuse royal commission ­yesterday he felt he needed to corroborate Lucy Perry’s story after he heard Dr Paterson’s lawyer accuse her of lying, which she denied.

Dr Paterson, 81, has ­vehemently denied touching Ms Perry during the rehearsal in the Knox assembly hall in 1989. This week he did, ­however, admit to covering up sex abuse of pupils by at least five of his teachers and deliberately lying to police.

Ms Perry, 41, claimed she was sexually assaulted by Dr Paterson as a 15-year-old during the rehearsals, when she was part of the chorus of girls wearing feather boas and fishnet tights.

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