AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Leonie Mellor
A group of former Brisbane Grammar School (BGS) boys sexually abused by a paedophile school counsellor are calling on the royal commission into child sexual abuse to make recommendations urging private schools to refund tuition fees.
It is an attempt to force the hand of the prestigious BGS, which has refused to pay back school fees.
The men were among many who made submissions to the royal commission last year when it was investigating the handling of complaints about counsellor Kevin Lynch, who worked at BGS during the 1970s and 80s then at St Paul’s Anglican School during the 80s and 90s.
The Anglican Archdiocese of Brisbane agreed to refund school fees of victims from St Paul’s, prompting BGS students to pressure their former school to do the same.
“I had felt utterly betrayed by Brisbane Grammar School, on this particular aspect,” the father of one man said.
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