AUSTRALIA
Daily Mail
By AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATED PRESS
A teacher who was asked to resign from an elite private school when he was charged with performing a sex act in public, expected to get a “richer” reference from the headmaster of Knox Grammar.
Christopher Fotis was asked to resign from the Sydney school in 1989 by the headmaster Ian Paterson.
He was given a reference which noted his enthusiasm for his job and his enormous help with extra-curricular events but which made no mention of why he was asked to leave or other complaints against him.
On Tuesday Fotis told a royal commission that it was a “pretty underwhelming” reference.
Fotis was later found guilty of obscene exposure after he was caught masturbating in his car on a street in Ryde, Sydney.
He was also suspected by teachers and students at Knox of being the balaclava-wearing intruder who sexually molested a year 8 boarder about a year before he resigned.
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