Child abuse royal commission: Trinity Grammar School deputy principal misread abuse, inquiry hears

AUSTRALIA
ABC News

By Michelle Brown

The deputy principal of an elite Sydney boys school has conceded he should have called police about sexual abuse in the school’s boarding house, a royal commission has heard.

Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse is examining how various schools responded to students with problematic or harmful sexual behaviours.

It has heard boys at Trinity Grammar raped and simulated the rape of other students more than 15 years ago, and had used a wooden implement in some of the assaults.

Trinity Grammar’s deputy principal Paul Green was asked about an incident report filed in 2000 by a Year 7 student.

It alleged a fellow boarder had forcibly held his legs in the air and simulated rape by pumping his front against him.

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