A TEACHER felt "emboldened" to abuse his students because of the culture at an exclusive, independent Perth school, an inquiry has heard.
A former teacher at the school has also told the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse she felt bullied by her colleagues after she reported a teacher known as YJ for suspicious behaviour towards children.
The commission is examining the response of the school, which cannot be named for legal reasons, to allegations against YJ dating back to 1999.
WG, who taught at the school between 1999 to 2000, first observed YJ tapping or caressing the bottoms of boys during her first term at the school.
She also saw him hit boys with a ruler, a paddle and sometimes an open hand.
"After I made my complaint about YJ to (the then head of the preparatory school) in the second half of 1999, I felt some of the older male teachers who had also been teaching at the school for a number of years started to not like me and were really quite nasty to me," she said.
"I felt bullied and had to keep my head down."
She said the school's response to her complaints about YJ's behaviour had "everything" to do with her moving to another school in 2000.
She likened the school in 1999 to a closed shop.
"You didn't speak out against your peers, parents, anybody to do with the school - you don't say anything that could bring the school into disrepute," she said.
WG was asked by council assisting Sophie David if the school's culture allowed YJ to continue to behave in the way she had observed.
"It allowed him to, because nobody ever - whether they - they just never questioned it, ever," WG said.
YJ was convicted in 2010 of sex offences against five boys at the school.
He appealed in 2012 but was subsequently convicted again.
Earlier, the mother of one of YJ's victims, known to the commission as WQ, said a school support network for YJ made the 2010 and 2012 court cases hard.
Parents and supporters of YJ called her at home and her husband at work after news of criminal charges broke.
"It is very hard for other victims or, in particular, other witnesses who have seen things, to come forward," WQ said.
"I think we were robbed of what would have been very helpful corroborating evidence because of the support network the perpetrator had."
The hearings continue.
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