Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sex Abuse

[SirRumpole]

The ABC is reporting ob the investigation into the widespread child sex abuse in Victorian public schools.

‘The truth needs to be told’​

By Russell Jackson

ABC Investigations
Published 27 Feb 2024, 6:00am
One survivor has called it “mind-boggling” and “beyond belief”.

A lawyer for victims says it was “calculated” and “covered up, just like in the Catholic Church”.

And on Monday, a small but important step was taken in addressing the Victorian Department of Education’s historical child sexual abuse crisis.

After six months examining decades of crimes against students in state-run schools, the government-initiated inquiry leading the investigation delivered its findings to the Victorian governor.

The government has not said when it will make the report and its response public.

In the early 70s, four paedophiles taught together at this school. Survivors say it was a sign of an insidious crisis

After six months examining decades of crimes against students in state-run schools, the government-initiated inquiry leading the investigation delivers its findings to the Victorian governor.

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About time all this stuff came out.

Although I saw no evidence of it when I was at school , I wonder how widespread it is. Is it just a few egregious cases, or widespread in the school system?

Hopefully the inquiry will find out.

 

[basilio]

About time all this stuff came out.

Although I saw no evidence of it when I was at school , I wonder how widespread it is. Is it just a few egregious cases, or widespread in the school system?

Hopefully the inquiry will find out.

The inquiry has been held and the findings are in. The ABC report goes over what they found out. Ugly stuff.
It's quite possible there are still many people who havn't spoken up

 

[basilio]

The ABC has been busy. Clearly the earlier stories have resulted in more disgraceful activitie being uncovered.

Victorian Education Department refused to sack sexually abusive teacher at Macleod High School, memoir alleges​

ABC Investigations
/ By Russell Jackson
Posted 6h ago6 hours ago, updated 4h ago4 hours ago

Peter Gerrard Jackman in 1968, when he taught at Camberwell High School in Melbourne.(ABC News: Alex Lim / Supplied)

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• In short: Peter Gerrard Jackman was accused of sexually abusing at least 10 girls at a school in Melbourne's north in 1969 and 1970, according to a former principal's unpublished memoir.
• Jackman resigned and later carried on his teaching career in Queensland.
• What's next? A woman who alleges she was sexually abused by Jackman has launched legal action against the Victorian government.

The Victorian Education Department sent unqualified teachers into classrooms in the 1960s and then failed to sack them following reports they were sexually abusing their students, according to recently discovered documents.

In an unpublished memoir obtained by ABC Investigations, former Macleod High School principal Athol Jones claimed that the Victorian Education Department appointed "morally reprehensible" trainee teachers to the school in the late 1960s and that a senior department executive failed to terminate the employment of one when Jones passed on complaints that the teacher was sexually abusing female students.

'An educated man who preyed on his students': Woman sues Victorian government over alleged abuse by high school teacher

The Victorian Education Department sent unqualified teachers into classrooms in the 1960s and then failed to sack them following reports they were sexually abusing their students, according to recently discovered documents.

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[SirRumpole]

The inquiry has been held and the findings are in. The ABC report goes over what they found out. Ugly stuff.
It's quite possible there are still many people who havn't spoken up

The report hasn't been released yet so the ABC is only speculating on the results.

 

[basilio]

The report hasn't been released so the ABC is only speculating on the results.

Your right. I didn't express it properly.

The ABC has done much of the legwork with the initial investigations. They are reporting on what they knew already. That is very unlikely to change.

The official government inquiry would have built on those investigations and, who knows ?, made some recommendations. We will have to wait for the release of their findings.