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A BRISBANE school principal employed a teacher despite being told by another principal that the man had been sacked after complaints from students and other staff of inappropriate behaviour . Yesterday the music teacher, a 54-year-old South Australian man, repeatedly shook his head in court as he was jailed for three years for sexual offences against students. He was convicted by a Brisbane District Court jury on 34 charges of sexually abusing his two infant children and two male students of the school where he taught in 1981-84. In written sentencing submissions, Crown Prosecutor Sal Vasta said the teacher had been found guilty by a South Australian Department of Education board inquiry in 1978 of offences committed, as a teacher, against a number of students. The court was told he had subsequently been employed as a boarding master at a Brisbane school in 1980, but had been dismissed after a school chaplain raised concerns and students made complaints, although there was no allegation that he had actually interfered with any boy. He was then employed by another local school, even though the principal had telephoned his previous employer and been told why he was dismissed. The court was told the conduct of the principal was a major part of a civil case by the complainants against the Anglican Church. But Judge Julie Ryrie said that, while she read and noted Mr Vasta's submissions, this antecedent behaviour could not properly be taken into account during yesterday's sentencing procedures for the 1981-to-1984 offences. However, the man's conviction in 1994 on 15 charges of sexually abusing six boys while he was a teacher in the Northern Territory – for which he served three years of an eight-year sentence – was accepted. Last month a jury took a little more than five hours to deliver guilty verdicts on the current offences after a week-long trial, during which jurors heard how the teacher manipulated a then-13-year-old student, ingratiated himself with his single mother, gave him extravagant presents and took him on special trips. The court was told that the abuse had included sexually explicit conversations, touching and masturbation, and abuse against the man's own infant boy and young daughter. He had later preyed on the 13-year-old boy's younger brother. Defence barrister John Fraser said his client had completed a two-year sexual offender's treatment program, had undergone private counselling, and had not re-offended in the eight years since his release. Mr Fraser also said his client had completed a TAFE course as part of his retraining as an electrician, as he could no longer work in the music or production fields with children. He was also caring for his frail elderly parents in South Australia. Judge Ryrie sentenced the man to a total of three years' jail, recorded a conviction, and made no recommendation for parole. Queensland NEwspapers (11-8-2005) Leanne Edmistone |
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