Dad and mom are outraged {that a} nude picture of a scholar allegedly stolen from his cellphone circulated for weeks amongst an elite personal faculty’s group earlier than any considerations have been raised.
A bunch of Marist School Ashgrove college students allegedly gained entry to a classmate’s iPhone and forwarded the picture, which was meant for a woman, to themselves after which distributed it broadly over the Christmas holidays.
The picture was nonetheless being circulated to college students up till final week when a mother or father lastly notified the college.
An unnamed mother or father expressed their dismay over the incident.
An elite Catholic boarding faculty in Brisbane, Marist School Ashgrove, has been rocked by a nude picture of a scholar being circulated
‘My son obtained the picture, like many college students within the yr degree, however I do not know the way far (additional within the scholar group) it went,’ they advised the Courier Mail.
‘You pay 1000’s and 1000’s anticipating your little one to obtain an elite training, however then you definitely hear about issues like this taking place.
‘The varsity must do extra to maintain the children secure. It’s Marist’s newest scandal and the incident has made me lose religion in what we signed up for when sending him to the college.’
A faculty spokeswoman stated the incident occurred in the course of the holidays and that it took fast motion.
‘As quickly as the school was knowledgeable of the incident in February we acted promptly to analyze the matter,’ she stated.
‘These college students concerned have been counselled and their dad and mom have been knowledgeable.
‘All little one safety processes have been additionally enacted, together with notifying all applicable authorities.’
There have been conflicting reviews as as to if police have been contacted in regards to the incident.
Police advised the publication that they weren’t conscious of the alleged incident.
Each day Mail Australia contacted Queensland Police for remark.
It comes after it emerged that academics at one other Queensland highschool posed for sexually suggestive images, which have been became a staffroom calendar.
The images confirmed workers at Balmoral State Excessive College in Brisbane posed in compromising positions, with one instructor dressed as a nun and one other in a glowing gold mankini together with his legs splayed.
Livid dad and mom say they count on extra from the college the place they pay 1000’s to let their kids attend
A whistle blower raised considerations in regards to the calendar after a workers grievance in December resulted within the denial of its existence.
One picture exhibits a instructor sporting a gold mankini bent over on all fours, whereas a instructor sporting a nun outfit places a foot on their decrease again.
One other exhibits a instructor pouring a carton of milk onto one other instructor.
The leaked images have drawn combined reactions from the general public, with some suggesting they cross the road, whereas others say they should not be taken too critically.
‘I do not wish to be a prude… they’re in all probability having a little bit of enjoyable,’ Queensland senator Matt Canavan stated on Right this moment.
‘It is in all probability extra embarrassing for them than it’s for anybody else.’
9 reporter Heidi Murphy stated the ‘worst half’ was the images being been leaked out of the staffroom and put ‘on the nationwide stage’.
A whistle blower advised the Courier Mail the calendar is proof of a poisonous tradition on the faculty.
Additionally they stated the calendar was on desks in a staffroom, the place college students could have seen them.
‘It is the shortage of professionalism, it is the actual fact they’ve concerned a nun and he is dressed as some homosexual man – it is utterly inappropriate … and completely unacceptable,’ they stated.
The Division of Schooling stated it was ‘wanting into the matter’, however that it ‘doesn’t touch upon particular person worker issues’.
It added that the college stated no college students or dad and mom had been proven the calendar.
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