AUSTRALIA
The Australian
February 15, 2017
TESSA AKERMAN
ReporterMelbourne
@TessaAkerman
The royal commission into child sex abuse has rejected evidence by the former head of Geelong Grammar, John Lewis, that he was not told a teacher at the school tried to have sex with a student.
In its report into Geelong Grammar handed down yesterday, the commission found students BKM and BIA told Mr Lewis that Jonathan Harvey, a maths teacher/housemaster, “tried to have sex” with BKM in 1982. Counsel for Mr Lewis had submitted BKM and BIA’s evidence was compromised because they were giving evidence of historical events.
The commission rejected Mr Lewis’s submissions and made no finding as to whether the sexual abuse occurred.
Mr Lewis gave evidence that he didn’t speak to other teachers about the allegations because he would not have considered it appropriate.
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