When Chris Dawson heard the word "guilty" he closed his eyes inside the overflowing courtroom. Outside there was applause after a wait of more than 40 years for a result.
www.abc.net.au
I reckon, at some point. maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow , but someone, surely is going to ask 'exactly how did Dawson
get away with this horrendous crime
for so long??' There are so many points in this journey where he just slid under the radar, from family, employer, police, et al.
It still shocks me, that he left Cromer High school the both of them, Paul and Chris , where they had been the teachers of Sexual biology, or some such, BECAUSE they were knocking off the pupils, and then Chris gets a job up on the Gold Coast, at a Catholic ladies College, teaching the same thing!
So I'm adding in the church as being asked some hard questions, as well.
There is no doubt in my mind that the police , Northern Beaches, were laid back about this whole culture, most likely receiving benefits from it, of a purient nature, they could not have been this dismissive, this credulous without some payment in the back pocket. Looked at objectively, Chris Dawson was the perfect subject for a regulation, methodical investigation.
But no!..