AUSTRALIA
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The chief executive of a women’s health charity says she was indecently assaulted by a former Knox Grammar School headmaster.
Lucy Perry has told a royal commission hearing into the elite Sydney north shore boy’s school that Ian Paterson groped her in 1989 when she was part of musical being produced by her school Roseville and Knox Grammar.
Ms Perry who is chief executive of Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia (Australia), said the assault happened in full view of students at the Knox school hall, and the boys who saw it “roared with approval”.
She reported the assault to NSW police in 2009 when numerous allegations about widespread sexual abuse at the school were coming out.
Ms Perry said at one of the rehearsals she was backstage talking to some of the boys at a production of Guys and Dolls when Dr Paterson pointed to her and one of the boys and said “you and you out”.
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