AUSTRALIA
The Canberra Times
Alexandra Back
The trial of a former catholic school teacher accused of sexually abusing a student began on Friday in the ACT Supreme Court.
Prosecutors contend that on two occasions in the 1980s, Peter Cuzner, 61, touched the boy while purporting to look for a pulse.
The boy was 13 or 14 and in year 9 at Daramalan College. He had only that year joined the school from another in Canberra.
Cuzner was the boy’s year co-ordinator and commerce teacher.
The student, now an adult, gave evidence on Friday, telling the court he remembered Cuzner would wear “80s style pastel” jumpers.
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