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Over the next two weeks, 31 witnesses including former Governor-General and former Archbishop of Brisbane Peter Hollingworth, will give evidence about alleged abuse at Brisbane Boys Grammar and St Paul’s College.
By Stefan Armbruster
3 NOV 2015
Graphic evidence of sexual abuse of boys at two prestigious Brisbane schools and repeated failure to report matters to Queensland police has been heard by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Abuse.
Over the next two weeks, 31 witnesses including former Governor-General and former Archbishop of Brisbane Peter Hollingworth, will give evidence about alleged abuse at Brisbane Boys Grammar and St Paul’s College.
Two former employees of the schools – Kevin John Lynch and Gregory Robert Knight – are the focus of the Royal Commission.
The extent of abuse at Brisbane Grammar was revealed after former student Nigel Parodi, allegedly abused, by Lynch shot three Queensland police officers, two in the face, in an inner-Brisbane suburb in 2000.
All three officers survived but after Parodi committed suicide, dozens of former Grammar students approached the school alleging they too had been abused by Lynch.
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