AUSTRALIA
Daily Mail (UK)
By Lucy Mae Beers For Daily Mail Australia
A former headmaster at a Victorian private school paid off a teacher to retire early after his sexual misconduct was brought to light.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sex Abuse heard that headmaster Nicholas Sampson, paid maths teacher Jonathan Harvey $64,348 in 2004 to vacate his position
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A few years later, Harvey, now 75, pleaded guilty to abusing a student and was jailed for ten months.
‘He suggested that he’d been led to believe that, if I retired early, there would not be – a formal complaint would not be made, but he wasn’t of course certain of that,’ Harvey told the commission on Monday, according to The Sydney Morning Herald.
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