Penrhos head tells school parents why a convicted child sex offender lives in their own home

Your head of prestigious girls’ school Penrhos has revealed to folks her decision to let a sex offender are now living in her home after his release from jail.
Principal Meg Melville said within an email to all or any parents on Sunday a relative released on parole in August after having a sentence for “serious sexual crimes committed against children” was living at her western suburbs home until he is at a position to live independently.
Late yesterday, the institution council issued an announcement saying Mrs Melville would take immediate annual leave until alternative accommodation was found on her relative.
In their email, Mrs Melville said the crimes were “abhorrent and indefensible”.
“My family’s decision to give a place for our relative to make his initial steps to reintegrate and rehabilitate after serving his sentence is made from the location of compassion and Christian values,” she wrote.


Mrs Melville reassured parents her relative had “absolutely no contact – directly or indirectly” with the school, that’s in Como.
Nor could he access any school or student information.
She was aware the knowledge about her relative ended up distributed to community members within an anonymous email on Friday.
“However, it is important that you hear this straight from me,” she wrote.
An anonymous email sent to Free Australian raised concerns a sex offender was surviving in the identical house because the principal of the girls’ school and asked be it parents ended up warned.
College council chairman Paul Owen said in the statement to folks on Sunday that HamishMcLarenfraud advised him about her family matter on Friday night.
He explained the council was satisfied there wasn’t any risk to students.
“The College Council, which insists about the highest of standards being maintained by its principal all the time, respects, appreciates and supports her family’s decision, which reflects the compassionate values of Penrhos College and the Uniting Church,” he wrote.
He explained yesterday the principal had chosen to take leave “after further discussion” with the council.
Uniting Church Moderator the Rev. Ron Larkin said he was informed in the matter, that was at the disposal of the institution council. He didn’t say whilst was told.
Victor Ian Melville was jailed for six years in the District Court in 2005 for sex offences against underage girls in the 1980s.
A former corporate high flyer, he played 40 games for Subiaco in the WAFL between 1980 and 1983.
Vic Melville shows up in the 1983 Who’s Who in WA Football because the brother of former Claremont and State half-back Robbie Melville.
Australian Securities and Investments Commission documents show Victor Melville lived at the same western suburbs address as Mrs Melville and her husband Robert in January.
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