AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Nick Wiggins and Matt Eaton
A prestigious Brisbane private school harboured a culture in which children making allegations of abuse were treated as liars, the royal commission into child sexual abuse has found.
The commission has handed down its report into what it calls Case Study 34, examining allegations of abuse at Brisbane Grammar School in Spring Hill and St Paul’s School in the northern Brisbane suburb of Bald Hills.
It heard evidence that school counsellor Kevin Lynch sexually abused “a large number of students” while he was working at Brisbane Grammar between 1973 and 1988, and continued abusing student as a counsellor at St Paul’s between 1989 and 1997.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse found then Brisbane Grammar headmaster Maxwell Howell (who died in 2011) was aware of one specific complaint, but did not investigate allegations and did not refer the matter to police.
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