A former teacher who worked at private boys' schools including Newington College and Trinity Grammar has been charged with fresh child sexual abuse offences.
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Edward Smith Hall, 66, is charged with offences including buggery after he allegedly assaulted 11 students at St Pius X in Newcastle in the late 1970s and 1980s.
He has not entered pleas after the matters were mentioned in Newcastle Local Court on Wednesday.
Mr Hall was known as Tony Hall to students at Newington College in Stanmore, where he taught between 1989 and 2000, while students at St Pius X knew the former maths teacher as Ted Hall.
He is charged with 36 child sex offences including indecently assaulting two St Pius students at Merewether and Adamstown in 1977 and 1978, buggery involving another boy at Merewether in 1984, and attempted buggery in the same year.
In July, Mr Hall - from Junee in the NSW Riverina region - was charged with indecently assaulting four St Pius students at Adamstown and Merewether between 1983 and 1986.
Police allege Mr Hall touched the four boys, aged 15, on the genitals while they were under his authority, and allegedly forced one boy to masturbate his penis and "continued to masturbate himself in his presence".
Mr Hall was a maths teacher at St Pius between 1973 and 1983.
In a Newington College report after Mr Hall's retirement in 2000, he was described as a teacher whose previous experience included a period as a teacher at Trinity Grammar School in Summer Hill.
At Newington he was remedial handwriting instructor, was rugby referees coordinator, and "under his care the number and quality of junior referees improved considerably", the school newsletter said.
Mr Hall's involvement in the school debating teams was attributed to his schooling at St Ignatius College, Riverview.
Newington said his greatest contribution to the school was in the area of water polo, where he led improvement both in Australia and South Africa, where he led school waterpolo team tours.
In a statement by Mr Hall tendered at the trial of former St Pius teacher and child sex offender Catholic priest, John Denham, he said he had worked with about 25 priests during his decade at the school.
Mr Hall, a former army sergeant, described St Pius as "a very disciplined school".
"Lay teachers and priests used the cane to discipline the boys," he told police in his statement.
"During my time at St Pius I did not hear, see or learn of any misbehaviour by any priest against a school student."
Mr Hall was charged after an investigation by Newcastle police led by Detective Simon Grob.
The matter will return to court in January.
Newcastle Herald
