AN 11-year-old boy who went to a psychologist at one of Sydney’s leading public hospitals was made to dress up and perform a sex act, a national inquiry will be told on Monday.
TERENCE Kirkpatrick a former outpatient of the Royal North Shore Hospital says he was sexually abused as a child by psychologist, Stuart Frank Simpson at the hospital in the late 1960s.
In the second part of a case study into health regulators in NSW and Victoria, the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse will examine how the hospital handled Mr Kirkpatrick’s complaints. Last week the commission examined how the NSW Health Care Complaints Commission and other agencies dealt with numerous complaints against former doctor John Rolleston who had a practice at St Ives in Sydney’s north and also worked at the RNHS. Justice Peter McClellan who chairs the inquiry has summoned former HCCC commissioners to give evidence after it was revealed there were serious flaws in how the regulator dealt with complaints in the Rolleston case. This week the commission will also examine allegations by a former inpatient of the Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, who alleges that in 1981, she was sexually abused as a child by a volunteer named Harry Pueschel and by another young male volunteer at the hospital. The Victorian hospital investigation is part three of the case study. The hearing is expected to run until Friday.