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February 24th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda A former female student at Katanning Senior High has revealed that her principal did not protect her and did not act on evidence boys were being abused at the adjoining hostel.
A special inquiry being held in Perth is investigating the scale of abuse against children at the hostel and what extent those in authority knew about it and acted on it.
Convicted paedophile Dennis McKenna was warden at the hostel from 1975 until 1990.
Kylie Jane Haddow, 40, today testified that she had witnessed McKenna inappropriately touching young boys sitting on his knee by putting his hand up their shirts and touching them high on the leg, near their groins.
“For any man, whether a parent or not, to have their hand placed high up on the leg, near the groin of a boy it never felt right, it never looked right, it would make anyone who saw it uncomfortable.”
“…it was more often than not the look in their eyes, the boys either would hang their head in shame and couldn’t look at you or when they did it was almost a pleading look of ‘get me out of here, stop this’ and I can still remember that look.”
She said that McKenna’s family members who were staff at the hostel would walk into the office and act as if it was normal.
She said that McKenna never hid his behaviour in front of the students.
She later wrote a note to her then-friend Diane Pascoe in 1986, while in Year 10, explaining what she had seen and the secret parties and trips McKenna took boys on.
Diane Renton, née Pascoe, had earlier testified that she had taken that note to the school’s then-principal Gerald Marriott.
“I just remember feeling ‘this is explosive’ and ‘what am I going to do with this?’,” Mrs Renton told the inquiry.
“…there were details of the abuse. …I just had this sense of urgency that something should be done and so I took it to the front administration area and asked to see the principal, Mr Marriott.
“…I went into his office, he stayed seated at his desk and I said ‘I think I have something that you should see’
“He sat there, looked at the note and asked who I was writing the note with. I told him and then he said I could go
“I did it because… I couldn’t just sit back and do nothing and felt it was for the greater good and I didn’t think Kylie would get into trouble.”
Mrs Renton said she thought Mr Marriott would have investigated the matter by seeing the boys in confidence or call the department but she later saw Ms Haddow, “looking terribly upset and angry and gave me a look”.
It was there that her friendship with Ms Haddow ended, testifying that even to this day they had not spoken.
Ms Haddow said she was called into the principal’s office and McKenna was there with a “smug look on his face”.
She said that she “felt very intimidated instantly” and felt betrayed.
She said she was subjected to threats from Mr Marriott who accused her of slander.
“That my parents would have to be told, that this was possible grounds for expulsion from the school, that police would have to be called, I could be arrested and charged for slander…that I what I had done was terrible and I should never write things like that and be careful about what I say and what I do
“… And what I had done was a terrible to a very nice man, who had done nothing wrong,” Ms Haddow said.
She said she was only 14 and “terrified” and she was forced to eventually apologise but first told Mr Marriott that it wasn’t slander “if it’s true”.
“I may have been scared but I wasn’t going to be bullied and I knew the truth,” she said.
She said life at the hostel got “10 times worse” and she was eventually expelled from the hostel in a letter from McKenna to her parents.
“I was shanghaied by these two adults, one who should have been protecting me and didn’t,” she said.
“Mr Marriott was the principal of the school and he had just been given some evidence of something inappropriate happening to children and instead of just asking me about it, instead of just taking it to the authorities… He called the one man it was about into the office and made me face him.”
During cross-examination, Mr Marriott’s lawyer suggested to Ms Haddow that the conversation never took place and if it did it was not with Mr Marriott.
“I was there,” Ms Haddow responded.
Ms Haddow’s sister, Jodie Brown, also testified that she tried to bring the names of four and five boys to the attention of at least two of her teachers to keep an eye on them.
She said she was reassured by them on several occasions that they were doing all that they could and “not to worry about it”.
The inquiry continues.
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