AUSTRALIA
Sydney Morning Herald
March 2, 2015
Rachel Browne
Social Affairs Reporter
A former senior staff member of Knox Grammar School was “gobsmacked” to discover two paedophile teachers were still working at the school years after he reported their activities to then headmaster Dr Ian Paterson, a royal commission has heard.
Stuart Pearson, the former general duties master of the school, told the royal commission he reported Craig Treloar to Dr Paterson in 1987 after a boy alleged the teacher had propositioned him for sex.
Mr Pearson told the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse on Monday that the boy had come to him in tears following the incident with Treloar.
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“Through tears the boy told me he had been invited into Treloar’s room,” he said.
“Treloar had poured some alcohol. A tape had been put on. It was pornographic but he could not describe it . . . he was just a young boy.
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