Vile messages of elite schoolboys at Sydney’s Knox Grammar exposed
Students at an elite school set up a chat room where vile child abuse material, racist and homophobic videos were posted.
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Students at one of Sydney’s most elite private schools set up a chat room where vile child abuse material, racist and homophobic videos and rantings on violent misogyny were posted.
Knox Grammar – which costs up to $35,000 a year, per child – has suspended some students and others have left as part of a major investigation in which they have also spoken to police.
Called Gang Gang, the group on messaging app Discord involved students from Knox along with former students and friends who were invited into the closed chat room.
RELATED: Read all the vile messages posted by Knox students
From anonymous accounts with names such as Ni**er Removal Service and Fa**othater3000, the users swapped and discussed content so graphic that much of it cannot be published.
One user wrote “I hate fems I hate gays, jews, people who don’t play fortnite, furries, ni**ers, I love titties, feet abortion, rape, drugs …”
Some posts appeared considered, others were barely coherent. Passages of discussion devoted to abortion quickly became abhorrent.
There are a number of anti-Semitic and racist references, including “Hitler is always stay in my heart”.
One of the most disturbing videos is that of a young male who appears to be under 18, being brutalised while there are other videos of young men who appear to be being raped.
There are constant comments about wanting to rape children and wanting to be a paedophile.
The Daily Telegraph has given the material to Child Abuse and Sex Crimes unit of NSW Police.
Knox Grammar School is an independent Uniting Church day and boarding school for boys in Wahroonga, an Upper North Shore suburb of Sydney.
Founded in 1924 by the Presbyterian Church of Australia as an all-boys school, and named after John Knox. The school has since grown, branching out into a large Senior School and a Preparatory School, enrolling approximately 2900 students.
Knox Grammar is officially the richest school in the state with an annual gross income of $107,806,358.
In January 2015 the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse announced it would conduct a public investigation into how Knox Grammar had responded to allegations of inappropriate conduct and sexual abuse by teachers towards students between 1970 and 2012.
The Royal Commission found in September 2016 that the school’s principal between 1969 and 1998 had covered up allegations of sexual abuse made against teachers.
What is Discord?
Discord is a free voice, video, and text chat app that’s used by tens of millions of people ages 13+ to talk and hang out with their friends online.
According to its website, the vast majority of servers are private, invite-only spaces for groups of friends and communities to stay in touch and spend time together. There are also larger, more open communities, generally centred around specific topics such as popular games like Minecraft and Fortnite.
All conversations are opt-in, so people have total control over who they interact with and what their experience on Discord is.
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