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Pervert Alert
My younger siblings used to study piano with a man who was later accused of possessing child porn and so was dismissed from a presitgious teaching position. Today, my sister has sent me this is article wherein I find that same teacher is accused of raping little kids.

A former music teacher, Gary Maxwell Featherstone, 55, has been accused of repeatedly indecently assaulting and raping a young boy over a five-year period
in the 1980s.

Featherstone once taught at the exclusive SCECGS Redlands school. The boy, now aged 29, today told Central Local Court he was a state ward living in a boy's home when he and his brother befriended Featherstone.

The two boys visited Featherstone on weekends. The boy said he often slept naked in the same bed as Featherstone when the abuse occurred.

Another four alleged victims are due to testify against Featherstone during the comittal hearing this week.

AAP reports: The boy, who was a nine-year-old orphan at the time and who cannot be named, told the court he was sodomised and forced to perform oral sex on Featherstone the first weekend he stayed at his home.

"I believe he raped me sir," he told the court.
Later that weekend he was forced to perform oral sex.

"I basically just started doing it because I knew what he wanted," the man said. "How did you know what he wanted?" prosecutor Michael Crowe asked. "Because he always wanted to be touched," the man replied.

He and his brother, both wards of the state, spent frequent weekends at Featherstone's home for about six years in the late 1980s.

They would spend the days horse riding, watching movies and playing video games, and at night would sleep naked either on the floor or in Featherstone's bed, the man told the court.

The hearing before Magistrate Les Brennan continues.

I cannot express the depth of my disgust as my younger siblings probably would recognise those accusers. In fact I think I saw those boys who would be at his place when I'd go and pick my sister up from classes. I always wondered who they were, where they came from. My sister swore back then that they didn't go to school but played all day long and did nothing. I put it out of my mind without really thinking about it. Now, it's just horrible to really contemplate what was going on. I am totally revulsed by this.

- Art Neuro