This was the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry’s written witness statement designation for the female biology teacher who was additionally referred to as “Laura (RCQ)” in the SCAI’s final Case Study report.
According to headmaster’s Andrew Hunter’s witness testimony, she had sex with five pupils, sent sexually explicit video to a male pupil, and communicated with pupils via a Facebook group called ‘Organized Bullying’.
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Abuse at a boarding school for boys in Edinburgh was “normalised for generations”, the chair of the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry has said. Lady Smith published her findings on Wednesday relating to the provision of residential care for children at Merchiston Castle School in Edinburgh.
Evidence was heard from Merchiston assistant masters Maria Victoria Prini-Garcia and “Robert (QZL)”, and the read-in evidence of Merchiston assistant master “Nicola (DFX)”—AKA “Laura (RCQ)” in the SCAI’s final report—and headmaster David Spawforth.
Re-anonymized as “Laura (RCQ)” in SCAI’s final report on Merchiston.
A teacher who had sex with boys at a top boarding school should have been publicly named as her misconduct represented the ‘highest end of severity’—according to a lawyer for the profession’s regulator.
