Dilworth School: New class action claims school failed to protect students from abuse

Auckland’s Dilworth School leaders apologised after six men were arrested on charges of historical abuse at the boarding school, Stuff reports. Two survivors of historical sexual abuse at the school are taking a class action claim to the Human Rights Commission, and are inviting others to join their claim which alleges Dilworth School staff failed to protect students from systemic sexual abuse at the school between 1970 and 2006. “I realised that if the school had done what it should have done, I wouldn’t have been abused. That’s what really shocked me … Dilworth is just as responsible as if they did it themselves.”