EXCLUSIVE: Teenage student under investigation for filming Year 7 boys using toilets at a Sydney high school after alarm raised over images and video on his phone

‘The school has offered all necessary supports to all concerned. The matter is currently with the police.’

South Sydney High School is a public co-educational campus which takes Year 7 to 12 students from Botany, East Botany, Banksmeadow and parts of Maroubra and Pagewood. 

The school’s motto is the Latin phrase spectemur agendo, which translates to ‘let us be known by our deeds’. 

Among its alumni are fashion designer Alex Perry, Test cricketer and television personality Mike Whitney and retired Rabbitohs NRL player John Sutton.

News of the incident at South Sydney comes after a teenage boy at the private Cranbrook School in the city’s eastern suburbs was charged with raping two girls. 

The student, 15, was arrested at his Paddington home on September 20 and taken to Waverley police station where he was charged with several offences. 

‘In July 2020, detectives from the State Crime Command’s Child Abuse and Sex Crimes Squad commenced an investigation into the alleged sexual assault of a then aged 15-year-old girl at Bondi,’ a police statement read.

‘During the course of the investigation, police commenced further inquiries into reports a second girl, then aged 14, was allegedly sexually assault at Bondi in August 2019.’

The teenager was charged with two counts of intentional sexually touching and having sexual intercourse with a child between 10 and 16.

He was also charged with intentional sexually touching of a child between 10 and 16 and having sexual intercourse with child between 10 and 16.

The student faces a further charge of trying to influence a witnesses to procure an acquittal.