AUSTRALIA
Sydney Morning Herald
March 6, 2015
Lisa Visentin
Reporter
The headmaster of Knox Grammar School has announced the school’s Paterson Centre for Ethics and Business Studies will be renamed, after it was revealed this week that former headmaster Ian Paterson failed to stop the pervasive sexual abuse of students that occurred during his 30-year tenure.
“We sadly cannot allow that name to stay on that building,” headmaster John Weeks said outside the royal commission hearing into child-sex abuse in institutions on Friday.
Former student Scott Ashton, who gave evidence to the commission about the years of sexual abuse he endured at the school, welcomed the decision as “fantastic news”.
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