AUSTRALIA
Brisbane Times
Jorge Branco
A former headmaster of one of Queensland’s most prestigious schools ignored a complaint of sexual abuse by a serial paedophile who went on to abuse many more boys, a royal commission has found.
In not investigating the complaint, former Brisbane Grammar School head Maxwell Howell failed to protect his students, a report released on Wednesday stated.
The child sex abuse royal commission report also made findings against former St Paul’s School headmaster Gilbert Case, who accused students of lying when they complained about being abused, and former governor-general Peter Hollingworth.
The findings came 15 months after hearings in Brisbane heard details of shocking abuse committed by notorious paedophiles Keith Lynch and Gregory Robert Knight at Brisbane Grammar School and St Paul’s School in the 1980s and ’90s.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse found one student’s father told Mr Howell in mid-1981 that Lynch had sexually abused his son, despite Mr Howell’s denial before his death in 2011.
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