23 Nov 2021

St Peter's Cambridge school reveals details of sexual abuse

From Checkpoint, 5:07 pm on 23 November 2021

The St Peter's Cambridge school chair has told Checkpoint the police are investigating historical abuse against former students.

An investigation launched in 2019 at the prominent Waikato boarding school has found 19 individual cases of historical abuse between 1936 and 1981 relating to eight former staff members.

Some of the staff have since died, but police are looking at some cases involving staff who are still alive.

John Macaskill-Smith says the school is focusing on apologising to former students and encouraging them to come forward if they were abused.