Comments on: The Kesgrave Hall sex scandal

By: M Risbrook

M Risbrook — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 06:55:00 +0000

Out of curiosity, did you ever know Riaz?

By: Scarred but healing

Scarred but healing — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 20:05:00 +0000

ahh then i believe you know exactly who i’m thinking of, he was a bully for sure but i dont think he knew any better (no excuse i know) i now also have a good idea who he attacked and why he thought he was protecting me, but although something happened there it wasnt in the same league as the other person i mentioned and i dont believe it was done with malice although a complaint was made at the time and yet again ignored

By: Matthew Smith

Matthew Smith — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 19:55:00 +0000

I now know who you think I mean by Dead President. Dead President’s last name began with a J, not a P (the name is meant to disguise him, but it refers to there being a former US president by the same name; Dead Presidents is Black American slang for money, after the pictures of dead presidents on their banknotes).

The person you are thinking of was in the form below mine and was expelled in 1991 or 1992, after a long campaign of violent behaviour, including against me, among other people, but his principal victim was someone in the form below his who had been accused of a sexual assault and it was an attack on that person which got him expelled. I do remember meeting him at Crown Pools after he was expelled. He had no idea that I would have been glad to see the back of him, like he couldn’t remember repeatedly attacking me for no reason in the toilets (“I just like to hear you scream from time to time”).

By: Scarred but healing

Scarred but healing — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 19:41:00 +0000

im happy to give full details but not in public i am worried i have already given too much information

By: Scarred but healing

Scarred but healing — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 19:32:00 +0000

There was no intervention because i was around 10 years old and scared for my safety, despite repeated complaints to staff they pretended it was all a bit of harmless fun, i couldnt tell my parents at the time i dont know why whether it was fear or embarresment. i may be wrong about DP but im pretty sure its the same person im thinking of, i never did quite believe him i saw him at the swimming pool we used to visit after he was expelled but the guy im thinking of had the same starting letter to his surname as the acronym, had a serious nicotine addiction and lots of issues but was underneath it all a decent guy.

The accusations were never taken seriously but repeated sexual assaults took place in the darkened art room after hours when he threatened my life. i still dont know how he got the key.

By: M Risbrook

M Risbrook — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 17:28:00 +0000

I have no more information about him - and it probably wouldn’t mean much to me anyway as I have never knowingly met him. Riaz hasn’t told me anything so far about sexual harassment taking place, but if it did happen, why didn’t parents intervene?

By: Matthew Smith

Matthew Smith — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 16:54:00 +0000

Yes, I remember now. Joined in the form above in 1990 but moved down into the same class as Riaz and me. I don’t remember him ever being accused of sexual harassment though.

By: Matthew Smith

Matthew Smith — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 11:29:00 +0000

I’m at a loss to work out who you’re referring to. The only “JC” I remember was the (female) maths teacher, and the person I called “Dead President” was expelled for attacking another woman teacher that he had a grudge against, and had threatened before. He had also attacked several others, including me, while drunk. I don’t remember him defending anyone.

By: Scarred but healing

Scarred but healing — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 04:39:00 +0000

I was a student at KHS in the early 90’s and was repeatedly beaten for “mouthing off” also i was repeatedly sexually abused by other boys (JC if i ever meet you again you will rue the day) and the staff didnt care they passed it off as “kids experimenting” i remember some of the characters mentioned in the article. I remember Dead President he had his problems but he was a nice guy at heart, he always claimed (to me at least) that he got expelled protecting me although i never knew what or who from. In my time there a few members of staff were fired or vanished with all sorts of rumours oddly enough though the members of staff that went never seemed to be the bad ones.

I was only at the school a couple of years but its an experience that I will never forget, I was emotionally scarred for years and ended up with serious violent tempers which thankfully i dealt with eventually.

But despite all the pain and abuse some of the staff and boys there were amazing and ill never forget them.

I did have a lot of fun there sometimes and thats what i try and remember more than the bad.

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