AUSTRALIA
The Australian
MARCH 06, 2015
Ean Higgins
Reporter
Sydney
FORMER Knox Grammar headmaster Ian Paterson has reversed his evidence on key elements of the child sexual abuse inquiry, now denying that he deliberately kept information from police, protected pedophile teachers, or covered up in any way.
In the final public hearing of the inquiry into Knox by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, Dr Paterson’s lawyer took him back over critical evidence he had given this week.
In his responses this morning, Dr Paterson withdrew a series of admissions he had previously made under oath.
Earlier this week under cross-examination, Dr Paterson had agreed that he had deliberately not told a police officer, who in 1996 had come to him to inquire about child abuse allegations against several Knox teachers, about what by then he knew to be a wealth of claims and in some cases admissions of improper conduct.
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