A private school has apologised for “brutal and unrestrained” historic abuse.
A total of 20 teaching staff at Edinburgh Academy were subject to allegations, including a child being beaten with a cricket bat, another pupil suffering a “small bleed on the brain”, a child being strangled, and boys being paid to swim naked.
Corporal punishment was banned in Scottish private schools in 2000, but the hearing was told “disproportionate sadistic violence” was rife in the school in the 1970s and a “culture of fear” prevailed – with one former teacher, Iain Wares, described by a lawyer for survivors as “one of the most prolific abusers in Scottish criminal history”.
Pupils were made to choose the implement of their punishment and sign it afterwards, the hearing was told.Alan McLean KC, representing the Edinburgh Academy Survivors group, said nine former pupils took their own lives. McLean said: “Pupil on pupil sexual abuse took place with multiple incidents of penetrative rape and forced masturbation.”
“The atmosphere of fear and constant vigilance against injustice is something the school is deeply ashamed.”McNeill added: “He should have been facing criminal charges and having nothing to do with children.”
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