AUSTRALIA
The Australian
MARCH 24, 2015
Dan Box
Crime Reporter
Sydney
One of Sydney’s most prestigious private schools, whose alumni include Tony Abbott, has announced a former pupil may have been sexually abused as a child, almost a year after reporting the matter to police.
The revelation follows evidence to a royal commission earlier this month that pupils were sexually abused by teachers at Sydney’s Knox Grammar School, and that senior staff may have failed to disclose this to police.
Paul Hine, the principal of the Jesuit-run St Ignatius’ College, Riverview on Sydney’s lower north shore, yesterday wrote to alumni saying a “former student … has made allegations concerning child sexual abuse over 30 years ago”.
“I am also communicating with all the boys today, in an age-appropriate manner so that they do not hear about this matter in a piecemeal way, or in a situation where they have no reassurances,” Mr Hine wrote.
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