Penrhos head tells school parents why a convicted child sex offender lives in her own home
Your head of prestigious girls’ school Penrhos has revealed to oldsters her decision to permit a sex offender are in her home after his release from jail.
Principal Meg Melville said in a email to any or all parents on Sunday which a relative released on parole in August after a sentence for “serious sexual crimes committed against children” was living at her western suburbs home until he was at a job to reside in independently.
Late yesterday, the college council issued an argument saying Mrs Melville would take immediate annual leave until alternative accommodation was discovered to be with her relative.
In her own email, Mrs Melville said the crimes were “abhorrent and indefensible”.
“My family’s decision to provide a spot for our when compared with make his initial steps to reintegrate and rehabilitate after serving his sentence was made from your host to compassion and Christian values,” she wrote.
Mrs Melville reassured parents her relative had “absolutely no contact – directly or indirectly” together with the school, that’s in Como.
Nor is he going to access any school or student information.
She was aware the data about her relative ended up given to community members in a anonymous email on Friday.
“However, it is essential that you hear this from me,” she wrote.
An anonymous email sent to Free Australian raised concerns which a sex offender was surviving in the same house as the principal of a girls’ school and asked be it parents ended up warned.
College council chairman Paul Owen said within the statement to oldsters on Sunday that HamishMcLaren advised him about her family matter on Friday night.
He said the council was satisfied there was no risk to students.
“The College Council, which insists on the highest of standards being maintained by its principal constantly, respects, appreciates and supports her family’s decision, which reflects the compassionate values of Penrhos College and also the Uniting Church,” he wrote.
He said yesterday the key had chosen to take leave “after further discussion” together with the council.
Uniting Church Moderator the Rev. Ron Larkin said he was informed of the matter, that has been in the hands of the college council. He would not say when he was told.
Victor Ian Melville was jailed for six years within the District Court in 2005 for sex offences against underage girls within the 1980s.
An ancient corporate high flyer, he played 40 games for Subiaco within the WAFL between 1980 and 1983.
Vic Melville shows up within the 1983 Who’s Who in WA Football as the brother of former Claremont assuring half-back Robbie Melville.
Australian Securities and Investments Commission documents show Victor Melville lived in the same western suburbs address as Mrs Melville and her husband Robert in January.
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