Former Geelong College staff member under investigation after ex-students report alleged sexual assaults

AUSTRALIA
Geelong Advertiser

May 24, 2016

BETHANY TYLER
Geelong Advertiser

A CONVICTED pedophile sacked from a prominent Geelong school after failing to stop massaging male students is the subject of a new local police ­investigation.

Reports have emerged alleg­ing former Geelong College staff member David Whitcroft sexually assaulted a number of boarders in the early 1990s.

Earlier this month, Whitcroft plead guilty to child sex offences at a previous workplace in 1982.

They claimed Whitcroft was accused of groping a male student in a dormitory bed in 1993 and invited boys to his apartment for massages.

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