AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Rose Bolger and Sam Ikin
The headmaster of a prestigious Hobart boys school said the school was ‘”misguided” for not taking an opportunity to apologise to a victim of sexual abuse, a royal commission has heard.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has been investigating how the Hutchins School and the Anglican Church dealt with sexual abuse claims dating back to the 1960s.
A former student, who was allegedly sexually assaulted by the school’s headmaster David Lawrence in the 60s, had been requesting an apology from the school for 20 years.
The school’s current headmaster, Warwick Dean, finally issued the apology to the former student last month.
Mr Dean told the hearings he now believed the claim made by the student, referred to as AOA, that he was sexually abused by former headmaster David Lawrence in the 1960s.
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