Your head of prestigious girls’ school Penrhos has revealed to oldsters her decision to let a sex offender reside in her home after his release from jail.
Principal Meg Melville said in an email to everyone parents on Sunday that the relative released on parole in August from a sentence for “serious sexual crimes committed against children” was living at her western suburbs home until he is at a position to live independently.
Late yesterday, the college council issued an argument saying Mrs Melville would take immediate annual leave until alternative accommodation is discovered on her behalf relative.
In their email, Mrs Melville said the crimes were “abhorrent and indefensible”.
“My family’s decision to supply a area for our relative to make his initial steps to reintegrate and rehabilitate after serving his sentence appeared from your location of compassion and Christian values,” she wrote.
Mrs Melville reassured parents her relative had “absolutely no contact – directly or indirectly” with all the school, which can be in Como.
Nor could he access any school or student information.
She was aware the data about her relative was distributed to community members in an anonymous email on Friday.
“However, it is important that you hear this completely from me,” she wrote.
An anonymous email delivered to The West Australian raised concerns that the sex offender was surviving in precisely the same house since the principal of an girls’ school and asked be it parents was warned.
College council chairman Paul Owen said from the statement to oldsters on Sunday that HamishMclarenBankrupt 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 at all times, respects, appreciates and supports her family’s decision, which reflects the compassionate values of Penrhos College along with the Uniting Church,” he wrote.
He said yesterday the principal had chosen to take leave “after further discussion” with all the council.
Uniting Church Moderator the Rev. Ron Larkin said he was informed in the matter, that has been at the disposal of the college council. He did not say when he was told.
Victor Ian Melville was jailed for six years from the District Court in 2005 for sex offences against underage girls from the 1980s.
An early corporate high flyer, he played 40 games for Subiaco from the WAFL between 1980 and 1983.
Vic Melville shows up from the 1983 Who’s Who in WA Football since the brother of former Claremont assuring half-back Robbie Melville.
Australian Securities and Investments Commission documents show Victor Melville lived on the same western suburbs address as Mrs Melville and her husband Robert in January.
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