AUSTRALIA
Sydney Morning Herald
[with video]
September 10, 2015
Eryk Bagshaw
Education Reporter
The headmaster of the eastern suburbs private school Cranbrook has admitted he paid a teacher at his former institution, Geelong Grammar, to retire early to avoid any formal complaints of child sex abuse being made against him.
Nicholas Sampson, who has been the headmaster of the Bellevue Hill school since 2012, also allowed maths teacher Jonathan Harvey to remain in his role at Geelong for a further six months after he was made aware of allegations of child sex abuse, the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse heard on Thursday.
The evidence given at the commission has put Mr Sampson’s tenure at Cranbrook, an-all boys school that charges students $30,000 per year, under scrutiny.
A spokesman for the Anglican Church, which has two chairs on the Cranbrook school board, said that the church was disappointed at the evidence given by the headmaster.
“We do agree that his response at Geelong Grammar in 2004 was, as he told the commission, ‘just not good enough’.”
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