AUSTRALIA
The Australian
MARCH 02, 2015
Ean Higgins
Reporter
Sydney
THE general duties matter at Knox Grammar who investigated pedophile teacher Adrian Nisbett was shocked in 1990 to find headmaster Ian Paterson had given Nisbett a position in a Knox boarding house, four years after he had been removed from contact with students.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse this morning heard further evidence from Stuart Pearson, a former policeman, who held the general duties job at the Sydney private school in the 1980s.
Mr Pearson said Dr Paterson had initially discouraged him from investigating Nisbett, who among other improper actions against students, had rubbed boys in a sexual fashion in his darkroom.
Nisbett was arrested in 2009 and convicted of two counts of category 4 sexual assault.
Mr Pearson’s report to Dr Paterson in 1986 on Nisbett found a “pattern of behaviour”, and recommended he be removed from roles in which he would have contact with students, and Mr Paterson took actions to this effect.
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