A Queensland boarding school failed to properly care for a student after she was allegedly gang-raped by older boys while boarding there in 2006, a royal commission has been urged to find.
Counsel assisting the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, David Lloyd, made submissions harshly criticising Townsville’s Uniting Church-run Shalom Christian College’s response to the trauma.
He said, 10 years on, the school still did not have enough money to provide a safe environment for its students.
During hearings in Sydney in November last year, the young woman’s tearful parents said they w…
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