Inside a private school’s control tactics
Survivors of the Redeemer Baptist School in Australia have testified before a parliamentary inquiry regarding systemic abuse and financial mismanagement. The school is under investigation for allegedly funneling government funding into a massive private property portfolio.
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Highlights serious allegations of institutional abuse and the misuse of public education funding.
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Share A A A Survivors of Redeemer Baptist School have told a NSW parliamentary inquiry they were sexually, physically, emotionally and spiritually abused, urging the government to classify the school and its associated church as a system of group-based coercive control.
The inquiry also heard that the school leveraged its government funding, fees and donations to amass a property portfolio worth an estimated $140 million.
Former elder Glenn Frost said the school funnelled government funding and school fees into a property portfolio worth more than $140 million. Steven Siewert Former elder Glenn Frost testified that the school continually bought properties to house staff and community members, and that he had been responsible for overseeing the portfolio in his time at the North Parramatta private school.
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