AUSTRALIA
The Age
September 11, 2015
Adam Cooper
A former Geelong Grammar housemaster, who was also renowned among Australia’s arts community, has been jailed for seven-and-half-years for sexually abusing six boys in his care more than three decades ago.
As the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sex Abuse continued its focus on the prestigious school in the Victorian County Court building on Friday, John Hamilton Buckley sat in another court room as judge Jane Patrick condemned his “disgraceful” and “predatory” offending.
Buckley sexually abused six boys aged between 10 and 13 between 1980 and 1983, when he was a teacher and housemaster at Geelong Grammar’s junior school Glamorgan in Toorak.
Among his victims were two brothers, another boy who was indecently assaulted while in the sick bay and another who was told to pretend Buckley was Bo Derek and to “make love” to him.
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Buckley used pornographic material, dinners outside the campus and a card game similar to strip poker to manipulate the boys before offending.
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