AUSTRALIA
Sydney Morning Herald
[with video]
September 11, 2015
Eryk Bagshaw
Education Reporter
Parents and students at Sydney school Cranbrook fear that the career of their headmaster may be over after damaging revelations at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
On Thursday the school’s headmaster, Nicholas Sampson, 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.
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The commission also heard that Mr Sampson allowed the teacher, Jonathan Harvey, to remain at the school teaching maths for a further six months after the allegations were raised and that he failed to report the matter to Victorian Police and the Victorian Institute of Teachers.
After he suggested Harvey retire, Mr Sampson wrote handwritten notes to him praising his “outstanding service” and for his “friendship and kindness towards my family”, before authorising a payment of $64,348 for an extra year in which he did not work.
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