A former Melbourne primary school teacher, who now runs a bed and breakfast in Scotland, faced court on Wednesday over historic Victorian child abuse offences.
Almost every day, Ben* passes the mobile phone towers on a hill by the Western Ring Road that serve as a reminder of the place where he was abused.
The court heard that in 1985, Bloom was working as a teacher at Sacred Heart Primary School in Diamond Creek, in Melbourne’s north-east, and as a swimming coach when he began visiting a paddock not far from the Western Ring Road that children were known to frequent. One day in 1985, he told Ben to follow him to an area on the other side of some thick trees, where Ben was abused.Fargher said Bloom later followed the victim in the street and told him not to tell anyone what had happened. “Mr Bloom told the victim that he would find out if he told anyone and that he would get angry,” the prosecutor said.
The County Court heard Bloom now lives in Aberdeen, in Scotland, where he runs a bed and breakfast with his wife.
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