Thousands of girls from some of Australia s top private schools have claimed they were sexually assaulted in a petition demanding students be taught about consent.
Among the disturbing accounts shared since Kambala School alumni Chanel Contos, 22, launched the petition on February 18, one horrifying theme emerges - most of their alleged rapists were their boyfriends or close male friends.
Many anonymously revealed they lost their virginity to their rapists - who went to elite Sydney boys schools including The King s School, St Ignatius College Riverview, and Cranbrook - while they slept, or were too drunk to consent.
One girl wrote that she was a 15-year-old virgin in 2016 when she met her first boyfriend who had a rape fetish , and assaulted her repeatedly throughout their relationship.
Former Kambala student Chanel Contos, 22, launched a petition last Thursday
An explosion of thousands of ex students told their rape and assault stories
Most assaults took place when the victim was too drunk to consent, or asleep
Many private schoolgirls were raped by their boyfriends or close male friends
Ms Contos believes single-sex education is a massive part of the problem
St Catherine’s principal Dr Julie Townsend wrote to her school community on Saturday after a petition unveiled hundreds of former Sydney schoolgirls’ allegations of rape at the hands of their male peers.
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A national quarantine bubble for boarding school students has been proposed as expats have told of their anguish at sending their children back to Australia to undergo hotel quarantine unaccompanied before school begins.
The Sydney Morning H
eraldrevealed this week that NSW Health has overhauled its policies so that unaccompanied minors returning to Australia must go into hotel quarantine rather than self-isolate at a private residence, due to the risk posed by new mutant strains of COVID-19.
Boarding students from St Ignatius College in Riverview are being sent care packages in quarantine.
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NSW Health strongly encourages parents or guardians to voluntarily complete hotel quarantine with the children but that is not an option for many expats who live overseas and send their children to boarding school in Australia.