Richard George Ross

Richard George Ross was born in 1930 and died in 2022.

He was principal of Braybrook Primary School from 1969 until 1989, when he was charged with sexual offending against children.

During the course of the police investigation, police uncovered more than 3,000 slides of naked and semi-naked children, dating back 10 years, as well as over 100 rolls of unexposed film hidden in his office at Braybrook Primary School.

In 1990, Ross pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting an 11-year-old boy.  He was given a suspended jail sentence and ordered to do community service.

Ross would invite students of the school to work with him in the school garden on weekend, and then take some of them into the school’s darkroom and have them pose for photographs in varying states of undress, in exchange for cash.  He also took some children on overseas trips, at his expense.

Ross avoided charges in relation his offending  against all but one child because the time limit (12 months at that time) had expired.

Prior to his posting at Braybrook Primary School, Ross taught at schools in:

• Pullut
• Glenmore
• South Caulfield
• North Williamstown, and
• Sunshine East.

Rightside Legal is also aware of allegations of abuse by Ross during his time at Sunshine East Primary School.

At the time of his death,  Ross was being investigated in relation to a number of other reports of sexual abuse alleged to have occurred between 1963-1982.

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