Robert Burrett.
The harrowing and repulsive details of what Robert Selwyn Burrett did to his young victims are stuck in my mind.
How did this happen? How did a man who had been forced out of two schools in the North Island as principal and deputy principal over complaints about his incompetent
and concerning teaching manner end up anywhere near a school?
As caretaker and bus driver of a South Island school this predator had the freedom to use and abuse children at his will.
The very name of his position would imply to children that he was there to "take care" of them. Instead, he preyed on them.
When Teresa Cormack was abducted and killed on her way to school in 1987, it changed forever the way children got to school.
